Zusammenfassung der Ressource
FEATURES OF THE BOOM
- COMPANY PROFITS
- MASSIVE!!
- 7000 Millionaires by 1928
- NEW INDUSTRIES
- Cars
Anmerkungen:
- Meant that people could travel further and women had more freedom - so did younger people.
Anlagen:
- 1919 = 9 mill 1929 = 26 mill
- Radios
Anmerkungen:
- They could listen to the news and sporting events.
- 1920 = 60,000 1929 = 10 mill
- Washing Machines
Anmerkungen:
- Made housework easier for women.
- Trebled
- Vacuum Cleaners
Anmerkungen:
- Made housework easier for women so they could go out more.
- Trebled
- TRANSPORT
- Paved roads
Anmerkungen:
- This helped the larger amounts of car owners.
- Number doubled
- Trucks
- Number tripled
- First commercial flights
- 162,00 by 1929
- CONSTRUCTION
- New Factories
- For the expanding, booming businesses
- Banks
- Booming
Anmerkungen:
- People trusted the banks and so put all of their life savings into them. They also put in the money they made from buying shares.
- Loans
- Business like farms
- Buying shares
- Showrooms
- For the new cars
- Model T Ford
- Roads
- For the new cars
- Model T Ford
- Skyscrapers
- Empire State building
- Suburban Houses
- Travel Further to work
- ADVERTISING
Anmerkungen:
- They were colourful and snappy.
- Magazines
- Radios
- Posters
- SHOPPING
Anmerkungen:
- Chain Stores
- Woolworth's
- Mass Produced Clothing
- Dress Sizes
- Mail Order
- Roebuck and Co.
- Department Stores
- Bloomingdales
- ENTERTAINMENT
- Tabloid Newspapers
- Daily News
- 'Fun' Magazines
- Spectator Sports
- Baseball
- Babe Ruth
- Boxing
- Jack Dempsey
- CINEMA
- 40 Million Tickets Sold each week = 1920
- 100 Million Tickets Sold = 1929
- First Talkies
- Jazz Singer
- Movie stars
- Rudolph Valentino
- Chaplin