How frozen chicken helped create the U.S. pickup market

Overdrive Staff

Feb 24, 2016

Updated Mar 2, 2018

Check out this video from NPR’s Planet Money, which details how a brief post-World War II trade war between the U.S. and Germany helped establish the U.S. pickup market — a uniquely American automobile segment.

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