The boom years
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- Created on: 14-11-12 21:36
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- The boom years
- Features of the boom
- Electrics
- 10 million radio's in 1929
- There were 167x more fridges in 1929 than 1921
- The 1929 there were 20 million telephones
- buildings
- Queens outside new york doubled inside
- Skyscrapers built
- Transport
- 162000 flights a year
- Total number of roads doubled
- in 1929 there were 26 million cars
- Electrics
- Causes?
- First World War
- joined in late 1917
- One way trade
- Took over Germany's chemical industry
- Industries and Methods
- Assembly line set up by Ford in 1913
- Total production increased by 50% in the 1920's
- Credit Schemes
- Assembly line set up by Ford in 1913
- Republican Policies
- Low Taxation
- Import Tariffs
- Laissez Faire
- Trusts
- Normalcy
- State of mind
- "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"- Herbert Hoover
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- First World War
- Features of the boom
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