Why does Schlosser provide this piece of information in the Introduction to
Fast Food Nation?

What is one way that the author makes a distinction between the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental passenger flights in 1936

What is the meaning for a real looloo

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?