Economic Boom of 1920s

By Cmeloon
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    Electrical goods increased by 158 million

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    Harlem population increased 115,000

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    Trade union membership decreased 1 million

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    Truck registration increased 2.5 million

  • GNP at $73.3 billion

  • 1 million Americans went camping

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    619 commercial radio stations made

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    Borrowing increased by $6 million

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    Ford controls 50% of car industry

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    1/5 of people had a car, 27 million cars being sold

  • Federal highway act

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    Taxes on rich lowered from 50%-20%

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    Andrew Mellon secretary of treasury

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    Warren Harding is president

  • Ford McCumber tariff

  • 2000 campsites were in America

  • Agricultural credits act

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    Production of cars fell 400,000

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    Profit of businesses increased 62%

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    Real wages increased 13%

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    Calvin Coolidge is president

  • Tyre manufacturing accounted for $115 million

  • Ford makes a car every 10 seconds

  • Federal government was in surplus of $677 million

  • Spending of $3 billion on advertising

  • Ford closed their factory to produce new Model A, with 60,000 workers being layed off

  • 67,000 students went to business school

  • Only 20,000 people had freezers, which led to overproduction

  • Only 2/435 of women were in house of representatives

  • GNP at $104.4 billion

  • 662,000 miles of road had been built

  • 75% of cars were bought on credit

  • 50% major household appliances bought on credit

  • Car industry employed 7% of US manufacturing workforce

  • 100 women were dentists

  • 150 women were accountants