Word: dymaxion
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...strange looking, 19-foot, rodent-like vehicle meandered up and down on Massachusetts Avenue in the neighborhood of the Square on Saturday morning. Curious onlookers were informed that the unique machine was a "dymaxion," the solid steel, berth-equipped automobile of the future...
Married. Anna Hope Dale Biddle, 31, footloose Philadelphia socialite; and William Starling Burgess, 54, yacht & airplane designer, builder of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup defender Enterprise, co-designer of the Dymaxion car; in Reno, immediately after she divorced Edward M. Biddle, Philadelphia lawyer, on grounds of cruelty. Returning from a spectacular Alaskan jaunt some two years ago, Mrs. Biddle complained that her friends snubbed her, called her a "hellcat'' for leaving her husband and three small children. It was Mr. Burgess' fourth marriage...
...Chicago, visited the Fair, received a dinner in his honor at the swank Union League Club where German Ambassador Hans Luther loudly flayed critics of Hitler. Before re turning to Akron to pilot his Graf home to Friedrichshafen via Seville, he had a ride in the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion automobile which Gulf Refining Co. had been driving around Chicago for publicity. Luckily for him, he did not ride at the same time as two of his Graf passengers, Col. William Francis Forbes-Sempill. Master of Sempill, British soldier and flyer; and Charles Dolfuss, attache of the French Air Ministry...
...became an ardent backer of Howard Scott and Technocracy, which made a thousand headlines. His name also helped Architect Buckminster Fuller publicize the visionary "dymaxion" house...
...traditional house is an artificed cave. The traditional bathtub is an artificed pool. Buckminster Fuller has replaced these "feudal and finite" properties with what he calls "services." Dwellers in the dymaxion house will bathe with an airpressure hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap, in a compressed fog over their skin. Little water, no bathtub, no faucets or sinks, will be needed. Toilets will be dry, a machine converting sewage into methane gas to provide the house's light and power. Air will be conditioned, making bedclothes unnecessary. All machinery will fit into the central duraluminum mast...