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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
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GNP at $73.3 billion
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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
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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
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Ford McCumber tariff
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2000 campsites were in America
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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
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Tyre manufacturing accounted for $115 million
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Ford makes a car every 10 seconds
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Federal government was in surplus of $677 million
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Spending of $3 billion on advertising
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Ford closed their factory to produce new Model A, with 60,000 workers being layed off
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67,000 students went to business school
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Only 20,000 people had freezers, which led to overproduction
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Only 2/435 of women were in house of representatives
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GNP at $104.4 billion
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662,000 miles of road had been built
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75% of cars were bought on credit
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50% major household appliances bought on credit
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Car industry employed 7% of US manufacturing workforce
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100 women were dentists
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150 women were accountants