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America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know

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The New Consumption and the Economic Beam

Electricity is really what changes things, right? You've got electricity coming into the homes. And you go from a society that is mostly gas powerd to one that is mostly electrified by the end of the 19 twenties. So i think this brings us the new consumerism and the economic beam. I haven't run across it. It cerally not s like a trend. In terms of labour saving devices, it is the beginning of of the changing. Again, it leads into women's emancipationthat 've got labor saving devices.

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