Supersonic Thunder: A Novel Of The Jet Age - Plot & Excerpts
Jill was happy when he decided to get up late and spend the morning at the umbrella-shaded table that had been a fixture on their rear porch for years. He had boxes of paperwork with him, a calculator, and he’d worked steadily all morning. Finally at eleven o’clock he had called to her, “I’m going in to have lunch with Lou Capestro. Come out here for a second, honey.”When she sat down he pushed a sheet of paper to her. It showed that his interest in the Volkswagen dealership had grown to more than three-quarters of a million dollars.“Volkswagen is doing just what Fritz Obermyer said it was going to do. It’s taking off. They sold more than three hundred thousand cars in the United States last year, and we sure sold our share.”“Wow, I had no idea you had this kind of money!”“It’s our money, Jill. And I’m thinking about selling out, and just using it for us to indulge ourselves, you know, do some first-class traveling.”“Who are you trying to kid? The last thing in the world you want to do is travel.
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