September 16, 2026

Wednesday

Durant's Whistle-Stop Empire

In today's journal

A shift-change whistle marks more than the end of a workday, coinciding with the paperwork that stitched a handful of scrappy carmakers into one industrial giant. What began as a single factory's daily rhythm becomes the origin story of an empire built on borrowed nameplates.

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