H.G Wells
A house of today is still almost as ill-ventilated, badly heated by wasteful fires, clumsily arranged and furnished as the house of 1858.
Houses a couple of hundred years old are still satisfactory places of residence, so little have our standards risen.
But the rifle or battleship of fifty years ago was beyond all comparison inferior to those we now possess; in power, in speed, in convenience alike. No one has a use now for such superannuated things.
The Assembly Line at Highland Park
Ford's ideal worker: corporate citizenship
Household electrification in the United States
|-----:|:------| | 1907 | 8% | | 1912 | 16% | | 1920 | 34.7% | | 1930 | 70% |
| 1941 | 80% |
Refrigerator for 25 cents a day
the fundamental business of the country, that is, production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.
Herbert Hoover, October 25, 1929
The President's course in this troublous time has been all that could be desired. No one in his place could have done more; very few of his predecessors could have done as much.
No American could have provided a fairer test of the capacity of the business community to govern a great and multifarious nation than Herbert Hoover.
Calvin Coolidge (president from 1923-1929)
In other periods of depression, it had always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope. But as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope, nothing of man.
Note: what's wrong with these labels?
1932 election
Democrats nominate Franklin Roosevelt, governor of New York.
Platform: not being Herbert Hoover.