Word: motorization
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...aviator" who arrives for their wedding by landing on Daddy's sumptuous lawn in an autogyro. Peter Warne (Clark Gable), an unemployed newspaperman and wisecracking paragon, rescues Ellie from the phonies at the last moment and bears her away to the true America, for a honeymoon in a roadside motor camp in Michigan...
...protector--honorable knight disguised as roadwise cynic--as she tries to elude her father's detectives. The bus is the real Frank Capra America, a gallant little vessel pushing through sparsely settled American countryside, the passengers, ensemble, singing The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, checking into roadside motor cabins when a bridge washes out and waiting in line next morning for the outdoor showers...
...says, a cafe society parasite with the face of a small reptile--wants to marry Ellie for her money and in the end accepts a bribe of $100,000 to go away. King's narcissistic autogyro is a sort of 1930s version of the Osprey, or of those personal motor-scooters-of-the-air that the writer James Fallows envisioned, pre-9/11, as universal transport in a coming yuppie paradise. In Capra the real Americans take their chances with one another traveling overland. (Contemplating the current plan to use $15 billion of taxpayers' money to bail out the aviation...
...quilt into the washing machine, and it couldn’t handle it and the motor burnt up,” said Lynde, who has responded to calls at Harvard. “We’ve found fireplaces where they’d put a log on and not open the flue, or they’d have things hanging down [in front of the fire...
...unanimous decision, the court said that Toyota Motor Corp. did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act when it fired Ella Williams for poor attendance after Williams' carpal tunnel syndrome kept her from working. Williams' suit against Toyota claimed the company did very little to accommodate her disability - "reasonable accommodations" being a requirement under the ADA. In fact, the Court ruled, Toyota was not required to treat Williams under the guidelines of the ADA, because her condition does not qualify her as disabled. She is, the Court reasoned, still capable of performing "tasks that are of central importance to most...