The Rise of Big Business

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The Rise of Big Business
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Celebrating Business President Calvin Coolidge,
1924
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Celebrating Business Bruce Barton
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Celebrating Business Who Prospered in the 1920s?

• 1200 mergers caused the disappearance of over
  600 independent enterprises
• top 0.1 of U.S. families in 1929 had combined
  income as large as bottom 42
• i. e. approx 24,000 families had combined income
  as large as 11.5 million poor and lower-class
  families
• per capita income in the U.S. rose 9 between
  1920-1929
• per capita income for the top 24,000 families
  rose 75
• 80 of families had no savings
• farmers did not prosper - 1/4 of all employment
• less than 10 invested in the stock market

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Welfare Capitalism Shoe Companys Billboard Ad,
1923
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Welfare Capitalism Comic Strip on Workers
Owning Shares, 1929
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Automobile Automobile Sales and Registration
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Automobile Ford Assembly Line, Model A, 1928
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Automobile Ford Model T, 1920s
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Automobile Ford Model T French Ad, 1924
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Automobile General Motors Ad, 1925
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Automobile Cadillac Ad, 1925
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Automobile Chevrolet Ad, 1931
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Automobile Ford Model A Ad, 1929
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Automobile Song about Ford Model A, 1928
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Automobile Paige-Jewett Car Ad, 1929