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Factories, 98 ;

Chicago, 104 -105;

labor in, 62 , 121 ;

mechanized production, 62 , 66 , 67 , 86 , 170 ;

small, in New York, 81 -82

Fall River, Mass., 88

Familialism (family loyalty), 190 -193

Family planning, 193 -194

Farming:

depression after 1921, 180 ;

golden age of, 166 ;

immigration and, 157 -158;

land policy and, 18 -20;

New Deal measures, 180 ;

in New England, 11 , 13 ;

technological change, 60 , 65 , 67 , 69 , 121 ;

tenancy, 19 -20

Farm Loan Act (1916), 224

Federal Aid Highway Act (1956), 43 ;

amended (1962), 45

Federal Aid Roads Act (1916), 37 , 38

Federal highway system, see Interstate highway system

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan program, 232 -236, 240 , 249 , 252

Federal land policy, 18 -21;

court interpretations of, 22 -23;

surveys, grid system, 21

Fifth Avenue Association, 29 -30

Fire insurance, 234

Fire protection, 26 , 202

First National City Bank, 126


295

Florida, 166

Flour-milling machinery, 65 -67

Folk planning, New England, 7 -14

Fontana, Calif., 142

Food-processing industry, 96 -97;

technology in, 65 -66

Food products, inspection, 219

Ford Model T, 124

Ford Motor Company, 126 , 135 ;

Los Angeles assembly plant, 134 ;

River Rouge plant, 105

Forest Hills, N.Y., 210 , 223

Fortune, 125

Fort Worth, Tex., 88 , 97

Fox, William, Studio, 134

Framingham, Mass., 122

France, birth rate, 158

Fraternal organizations, 159 , 175

Freedom in cities, 113 -115, 119

French Canadians, 183

French Catholics, 163 , 164

French immigrants, 77

Full employment, 197 , 271 , 273

Futurama, New York World's Fair (1939), 42


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