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The 1933 report of a presidential commission examining contemporary changes in U.S. life remarked of the automobile: ‘It is probable that no innovation of such far-reaching importance had ever before been disseminated with such rapidity. Its influences ramified throughout the whole of the culture, and the very modes of thought and language have undergone transformation in consequence.’1
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Bloomfield, G.T. (1987). Motorisation on the New Frontier: The Case of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1906–34. In: Barker, T. (eds) The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08624-5_9
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