Entrepreneurial Pioneer

In Yplanty, Michigan, USA, in 1945, the famous automobile inventor Preston Tucker asked the Jewish financier Abe Karaz for funding for a newly designed car. This new "Torpedo" brand car that utilizes aerodynamic principles is called "tomorrow's car." Abe Karaz agreed to Tucker's request. After obtaining government approval, Tucker used an old prewar factory in Chicago as his experimental site. Tucker and the mechanics worked day and night to produce 50 cars in the first year. Finally, with their unremitting efforts, the first "Torpedo" brand car was successfully manufactured. When the "Torpedo" brand car was put into production, Detroit automakers were jealous of his invention, and they launched an attack. The three major car companies authorized senators as spokespersons to put pressure on Tucker's company. Tucker died of cancer six years later, and the Detroit Automobile Company took over all of his inventions.