These effects would also dramatically affect not one but at least two generations, specifically and perhaps most intensely both the "greatest generation"" and their children, the "baby boomers,"" who would each interpret and style the trend in their own image. ... Much of the rise of the automobile and the rise culture associated with it can be attributed to the automobile styling that began to take place at mid-century. ... As "other brands were adopting the most garish, exaggerated fins, Earl decided to remove them on the 1960 Cadillac, feeling that fins of this size had lost any aesthetic a...

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The sense of 'local' community was being lost. ... The British Empire, which had expanded under Queen Victoria and in 1900 had reached 13 million square miles, also began to disintegrate. ... This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history ...

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