His determination typifies this eccentric corner of the collector-car hobby, perhaps reflecting the can-do attitude that brought fuel economy, ingenuity and cheap wheels to the people of postwar Europe.
Our playfulness fuels our ingenuity and inventiveness, allowed us to defeat physically more powerful species to become global top dogs, and explains how we ended up wearing clothes, playing computer games, dropping "smart" bombs and watching Strictly Come Dancing.
This network is fueled by the ingenuity and passion of university students, researchers, faculty, grassroots innovators, and their partners who incubate, catalyze, and scale science- and tech-based solutions to the world's most challenging development problems.
The list of useful implements that can be crafted from wood is infinite and amazing, and I am spellbound by the ancient practice of woodworking, fueled by the ingenuity of men and women to cleverly alter this natural material into items of use and beauty.
The same drive, vanity, accomplishment and ingenuity that fuel a successful political career often fuel high earnings beforehand.
Classic chairs by American designers whose ingenuity was fueled by technology include Harry Bertoia's "Diamond" (1952), a wing model in welded steel wire mesh covered with fused white plastic, and Saarinin's "Tulip Chair" (1956), a comfortable all-purpose affair with a molded plastic seat and an aluminum base.
There is a feel of don't-you-get-it admonitions in the 3D Imax movie that includes Leonardo DiCaprio's asking, "Will we ever find anywhere as perfect as our planet earth?"; and in the nine billboards at the entrance that tell visitors space exploration is "a destiny, not a destination" because "it is the driving force of ingenuity" that "fuels our economy" and "creates the passion to pioneer".
The problem is not so much the SUV, which for a while generated much income, but the fact that there wasn't much incentive to apply American ingenuity and increase their fuel efficiency.
Yet, it is undeniable that American ingenuity and enterprise have fueled the spread of market economies, international trade and economic interdependence, which together have made conflicts between nation states in regions like Europe unthinkable.
The most direct reason is that there are far more fossil fuel raw materials and far more human ingenuity to get them than Ehrlich and Holdren expected.
The history of DUKW is charted over seven decades, an unlikely success story of military ingenuity that survived a skeptical bureaucracy to fuel Allied invasions and evolved into a ubiquitous vehicle for waterway tours.
