Mass Production
Who was the face of the new business era and perfected the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Tires are made out of what?
Rubber
With cars being the number one mode of transportation, ____ were needed
Roads
Ford-style mass production being applied to other industries led to mass _________?
consumption
Frederick Taylor promoted ______ in production by putting a stopwatch on a worker and eliminating wasted movement
Efficiency
____ industry increased because of the car industry
Gas
What was the new buying technique that led to debt?
Buying on credit/credit cards
The two early people in the automobile industry
Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds
Cars gave people independence and people began spreading out into _____
suburbs
Baseball became the American sport with who as the famous face?
Babe Ruth
True or False: early cars were reliable and very safe
False
How many people had died in car crashes by 1951? (more than the wars combined)
One million