... came a need for "roadside" business. Motels, cafes, gasoline stations, these were all natural outgrowths to the increased use of the automobile which Henry ford had created. The cheap automobile also led to the development of suburbia. In the past people had needed to live where they had worked. ... the cities. Land was cheaper outside the cities and therefore to live in the suburban areas was cheaper and so of course popular. Henry Ford showed that properly used, the assembly line could reduce manufacturing costs, and it did not take long for other industrialists to follow this ... reco...

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