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A Classic 1950s Propaganda Film Makes the Case for Superhighways

“This is the American dream of freedom on wheels. An automotive age, traveling on time-saving super highways,” begins the narrator of Give Yourself the Green Light, a 1954 film funded by General Motors. “But we’re running out of roads! We didn’t dream big enough,” he explains. This first half of the film outlines the problem posed by the growing number of cars and commuters, and includes fascinating footage of 1950s life on wheels — classic cars, a school bus, the main street of a small town, etc. Watch the film in its entirety at the Prelinger Archive.

how did we go from “build more highways” to “bail us out, b”?

(via theatlantic)

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The complexity of the certification process deterred anyone from designing small, easy-to-use planes, however. As a result, says Mr Dietrich, “you had an average age of aircraft of over 40 years.” The Lite-Sport category was introduced to encourage the development of such aircraft. Certification is simpler, and since the category’s introduction there has been a flowering of innovation. More than 120 new models of small aircraft have entered the market. (via Monitor: What happened to the flying car? | The Economist)

The complexity of the certification process deterred anyone from designing small, easy-to-use planes, however. As a result, says Mr Dietrich, “you had an average age of aircraft of over 40 years.” The Lite-Sport category was introduced to encourage the development of such aircraft. Certification is simpler, and since the category’s introduction there has been a flowering of innovation. More than 120 new models of small aircraft have entered the market. (via Monitor: What happened to the flying car? | The Economist)

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The cold, nutrition-deprived man may have gone into a kind of hibernation, said one doctor (via BBC) A Swedish man has survived being trapped in his snow-covered car for two months without food, police say. The car was found on Friday at the end of a forest track more than 1 km (0.6 miles) from a main road in northern Sweden. Police say the temperature in the area had recently dropped to -30C (-22F). The man, who was too weak to utter more than a few words, said he had been inside since 19 December. He may have survived by drinking melted snow.

The cold, nutrition-deprived man may have gone into a kind of hibernation, said one doctor (via BBC)

A Swedish man has survived being trapped in his snow-covered car for two months without food, police say. The car was found on Friday at the end of a forest track more than 1 km (0.6 miles) from a main road in northern Sweden. Police say the temperature in the area had recently dropped to -30C (-22F). The man, who was too weak to utter more than a few words, said he had been inside since 19 December. He may have survived by drinking melted snow.

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