{"id":18177,"date":"2013-07-23T20:08:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/?p=18177"},"modified":"2015-02-26T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T11:36:24","slug":"the-life-and-death-and-life-of-the-u-s-auto-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/the-life-and-death-and-life-of-the-u-s-auto-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life and Death (and Life) of the U.S. Auto Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;Since the late 1800\u2019s, the automobile has been an American staple in households.\u00a0 From its debut with Henry Ford\u2019s Model A, to next year\u2019s Corvette-cars have always captured America\u2019s attention.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not always been smooth seas for American automobile manufacturers.\u00a0\u00a0Bizbrain.org\u00a0has created a very informal infographic about the history of the automobile, entitled, \u201cThe Life, Death, (and Life) of the U.S. Auto Industry\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1916 saw a huge change in America-the passing of the Federal Aid Road Act.\u00a0 This act provided $75 million of Federal money in 50\/50 matching funds to the states; up to 6% of the roads statewide over a 5 year period.\u00a0 Less than one year later, every state would have a Highway Agency to assist in managing the funds. In 1924, Henry Ford debuted his family friendly Model-A vehicle, with a price tag of $260.\u00a0 This price would be equivalent of around $10,000 today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/timeline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18178\" alt=\"timeline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/timeline.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"3196\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/timeline.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/timeline-200x800.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/timeline-700x2796.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since the late 1800\u2019s, the automobile has been an American staple in households.\u00a0 From its debut with Henry Ford\u2019s Model A, to next year\u2019s Corvette-cars have always captured America\u2019s attention.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not always been smooth seas for American automobile manufacturers.\u00a0\u00a0Bizbrain.org\u00a0has created a very informal infographic about the history of the automobile, entitled, \u201cThe Life,&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/the-life-and-death-and-life-of-the-u-s-auto-industry\/\" title=\"The Life and Death (and Life) of the U.S. Auto Industry\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Life and Death (and Life) of the U.S. Auto Industry<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/timeline.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsilike.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}