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Show WorldBusiwt Street? I j It- , . "... " ! ' 1 ! v : A I ' J :!i JUST LOOK at that traffic roaring u by! Yes, sir. that's New York's fa-mous fa-mous Kifth Avenue lookinR toward 2id Street. Ami the lady In the stylish styl-ish white shirtwaist and the snappy little straw skimmer had better be careful when she sets to the corner, because you know how those horsed less carriage drivers swing around :he turns. With the national automobile automo-bile show approaching. Consumers Information In-formation dug out this picture, taken tn 1907. to show what a difference 30 years can make. The picture below shows r'ltth Avenue as it is todav. Advertising, Ad-vertising, which created the demand, und research, which perfected the i product, are credited with changing the picturo from that o 1D07, when only a few thousand cars were on the country's roads, to that of today, with almost 30.000,000. The few small manufacturers man-ufacturers of 30 years ago advertised to sell their primitive cars, which cost around $3,000 for a "medium-priced" model. They created a bigger demand than they could fill, and so bigger factories, increased employment, and constantly better automobiles resulted. re-sulted. And today we can buy an Infinitely In-finitely superior car for about one-fifth one-fifth of the price, while half a million men are directly employed In the Industry, In-dustry, compared to a few thousand at the time this picture was taken. |