Edge of Doom price-50-100 At Henry Ford's auto plant

At Henry Ford's auto plant

Men and women huddled on a corner for protection from a storm playing no favorites between people and horses

The Times wrote on March 1

but the deeper purpose for which each has been created

my fellow citizens

Edge of Doom price-50-100 At Henry Ford's auto plantEven jadded New Yorkers might have done a double take on this rainy night in Times Square with a towering "Edge of Doom" sign nearby. The glowing message didn't refer to impending disaster in the hardscrabble neighborhood, but rather a new black and white film noir directed by Mark Robson and starring Dana Andrews, playing at the Astor Theater in August 1950. Just up the block on the left is Times Tower, whose electronic news ticker or "zipper"