"These are the times when the world cries out for new and better things." No doubt, the modern Detroit visionary who said this over fifty-five years ago (it was the billboard sentence in this wonderful print ad) was responsible for other great things as well. 

Read the entire text of this glowing dynamic ad, scroll down, from a double-paged print advertisement taken from a July, 1945 magazine issue bought off eBay [believe it was from a copy of LIFE]. This is one of the best types of historic record chronicling a dream Harley Earl would first put into motion. The word "Technopolis" was initially coined to kick off America's first industrial park of modernity after it's completion some ten years later in 1956. Even after all these years, the GM Technical Center in Warren, Michigan still radiantly displays America's international style to the rest of the world. 

Notice pics below taken between 1945-47, GM's "top salesman" is shown in all them...that's because everyone knew this was H. J. Earl's dream.