Word: dynaflow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exfoliation of pastels and plastics, superhighways and suburban tracts. The entire culture seemed to have teen-age glands. New, unsettling dimensions suddenly opened: the interstate highway system, the picture window, the grainy little black-and-white universe of television. Gas was cheap, and bright big-finned Detroit cars with Dynaflow or Hydra-Matic swooshed Americans up and down the landscape in rhapsodies of mobility, well-being and heedlessness. In 1954, Oklahoma A & M College surveyed its students to ask their greatest fears and problems. The students answered that their greatest worry in the world was finding a parking space...