"Streamlined trains," wrote one historian ... took on the look. By the late 1930s, even bathroom scales were streamlined. Following a speaking tour of the Midwest, consumer engineer Egmont ...

These were homes built in the 1930s with rounded corners ... Designed by Southern Pacific architect J.H. Christie to resemble a streamlined train at the height of the Streamline Moderne craze ...

spawning the streamlined craze of the 1930s. Ralph Budd, as savvy a marketer as an engineer, organized a publicity stunt for his train that would allow it to capture the American imagination.