Abstract

Bringing Shelter Up to Date: I. Say It With Streamlines

It is said that the United States is an experiment in transportation, and hitherto the genius would seem to have done much better with instruments for moving than with those for sitting still. The Americans built clipper ships, they built an unprecedented trackage of railroad, within one generation they supplied themselves with 23,000,000 instruments of private transportation called automobiles, and with roads to run them on in excess of those employed by Europe for five times as many people, they are doing well with airplanes, and they excel in instruments of communication, too, such as telephone or radio. If they build a fair, one can count on it that the Transportation Building and the Communications Building will be central. These things possess their imagination.