“Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.” WayYearsStatesRealityRunningJusticeUnitedRaceUnited StatesHellCarNew YorkExampleMoonProveBallsSpeedIllegalLos AngelesDriversEstablishmentAutomobileHigh SpeedRumbleTruth And JusticeInterstate Author:Brock Yates
“But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.” StatesWisdomMovingPoliticsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyCarLowsLiberalismQuantitySteelInflationFluid Author:John Chamberlain
“To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.” KnowsWorldLifeYearsFirstsStatesAmericaTimeGivenUnitedUnited StatesWeekCarThis WorldFirst TimeUnited States Of AmericaUnlimitedEightyGasolineVisaLife TimeAgonizing Book:A Pocket Full of Pebbles Source: A Pocket Full of Pebbles
“In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.” FirstsStatesWould BeUnitedClassUnited StatesCarEqualPaintSatisfiedPassengersRailroads Author:Owen Wister
“I guess my favorite way to travel is in a car, especially if you get to go some place cool. The bullet train in Japan is cool; but overall, driving through certain areas, like the desert in the United States, or the Black Forest in Germany, you feel the nature unfolding.” IfsWayFeelsStatesCertainBlackUnitedUnited StatesCarAreasTrainMy FavoriteDrivingForestsDesertGermanyJapanBulletsUnfolding Author:Steve Kimock
“We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.” IfsWorldIdeasStatesDreamAmericaNationsWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesCrazyCarExampleBuildingParticularCitizensMachinesBasesPopulationSignificantUnited States Of AmericaPercentagesWellbeingMedicationAmerican CitizensAffluenceAffluentDepressants Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car” MadeStatesThreeUnitedUnited StatesEconomyCarMethodAppearanceBoatTransportationRailCanalsSteamboats Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States