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Join Wundry Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Wandering. It's February 1931 across the street from Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan.

The billionaire carmaker Henry Ford cranes his neck to see the latest aircraft coming into land.

Despite the Great Depression biting hard all across America, Henry has pushed forward with the expansion of the Ford Motor Company's airport.

It's now one of the most advanced in the world serving both commercial passenger flights and

airmail.

And the

six seven-year-old Henry is here today to show off the airport's latest addition.

Under construction opposite the terminal is a three-story red brick

building which is set to become one of the world's first

dedicated airport hotels, the Dearborn Inn.

A local reporter listens as Henry reels off the features planned for the hotel.

And now this won't just be a place for weary travelers to rest their heads.

No, the Dearborn Inn will also be a hot spot for local families and couples.

We'll have horseback riding, tennis, badminton, an area for kids to play, ballroom

dancing for adults, all just a short walk from our beautiful

airport. Henry then points to the sky. We'll even do sightseeing tours over to Detroit

in a Ford airplane. The journalist tries to keep up as he scribbles all this down on his not pad.

It's all very impressive, Mr Ford.

Considering the economic situation, I'm sure many of our readers will be pleased to see this extra investment coming into the local area.

Presumably the closure of your rubber plantation in Brazil will leave you even more scope for projects like this.

And resized NARA. What do you mean? What, they're just that there

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