Between the 1930s and the 1960s, Raymond Loewy's streamlined designs for thousands of consumer goods--everything from toasters and refrigerators to automobiles and ocean liners--radically changed the look of American life. Regarded as the father of modern industrial design, he appeared on the cover of Time in 1949; in 1990, he was selected as one of Life's "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century." Whether they realized it...