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Maxwell-Chalmers & Dodge Brothers

the 1920s, there was a shift in climate when corporate ill-winds blew in the American auto industry. The turbulence of financial swings, stock dips and rises, plus a questionable over-extension of credit buying all combined into a tornado that delivered a catastrophic start and conclusion to the maelstrom of the Roaring Twenties. While worldwide in scope, this was especially felt in the burgeoning promises of automotive industrialization in the United States where the storm’s intensity brought an era of merger mania,

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