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Leisure Class
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In a variety of ways, Americans wanted to get rich, and to do so with little effort. Thorstein Veblen published “The Theory of the Leisure Class” in 1898 and the theory of consumerism. The first commercial radio station went on air in the 1920s in Pittsburgh. By 1922, 3 million American households had radios, and the annual sales rose to $850 million by 1929. Motion picture industries became one of the ten largest industries in the US. In 1922, theatres sold 40 million tickets a week. A floodtide of new electric appliances, vacuum cleaners, toasters, washing machines and refrigerators American houses. The automobiles required better roads, the infrastructure was developed, new highways were built, and filling stations, garages, and roadside restaurants sprang up across the nation. Cars broke down the between the urban and rural America, a new tradition of “Sunday drive” started, the rural Americans drove into cities to shop and to be entertained. Children could escape parental as cars turned out to be a sort of “bedroom on wheels”. People became crazy about cars and every income group regarded them a necessity rather than a luxury. People were willing to their food, clothes and savings in order to buy a car.
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