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ROARING TWENTIES: AUTOS, INDUSTRY START TO COME OF AGE

The Roaring Twenties was a roller coaster ride for the American automobile industry, with peaks and valleys and plenty of high hopes. That’s just the way it was before the onset of the Second World War.

The decade began with a challenge. Due to the sudden conclusion of the First World War in 1918, the U.S. economy stumbled toward normalcy. In an era of “hands off ” by the government, society sought its own ways and means to adjust toward a peacetime economy. Sadly, it was not very

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