THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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advertising.
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mass production.
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newspaper and magazine articles.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -While he may not have invented the automobile, he did offer a new way of manufacturing a large number of vehicles. This method of production was the moving assembly line. The most common feature of this assembly line was the conveyer belt. The belts were in use within other industries, including slaughterhouses.
Detailed explanation-2: -Henry Ford’s assembly line system divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do, and it cut unnecessary motion to a minimum.
Detailed explanation-3: -Andrew Mellon, a successful banker and industrialist, was secretary of the treasury under President Harding and the chief architect of economic policy.
Detailed explanation-4: -The moving assembly line divided operations into simple tasks and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum. In 1913 automaker Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line at a plant in Highland Park, Michigan. By the following year, workers were building an automobile every 93 minutes.