The nation responded by motorizing its [[police]] forces and [[ambulance]] services.
The nation responded by motorizing its [[police]] forces and [[ambulance]] services.
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* Willey and Rice concluded that during the fifteen years from the beginning of the Great War until the beginning of the Great Depression America underwent "a transformation of social habits" as a direct result of the widespread diffusion of the private automobile. Frederick Lewis Allen accused the automobile of accelerating the "revolution in manners and morals" underfoot in America in the nineteen-twenties. [http://books.google.com/books?id=xtK10xWI8AQC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=the+explosive+social+changes+brought+about+by+the+introduction+of+the+automobile&source=bl&ots=hKwPNmjrsC&sig=zk9RrBqt-R_CEHNp-7nQuSI0t7o&hl=en&ei=-_nKS-yvAsL48Aax1fD4BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false]
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* Willey and Rice concluded that during the fifteen years from the beginning of the Great War until the beginning of the Great Depression America underwent "a transformation of social habits" as a direct result of the widespread diffusion of the private automobile. Frederick Lewis Allen accused the automobile of accelerating the "revolution in manners and morals" underfoot in America in the nineteen-twenties.
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* Eventually, the automobile became another mundane feature of modern life, with the [[auto showroom]], [[gasoline pump]], and the [[garage]] becoming fixtures in American life. [http://books.google.com/books?id=xtK10xWI8AQC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=the+explosive+social+changes+brought+about+by+the+introduction+of+the+automobile&source=bl&ots=hKwPNmjrsC&sig=zk9RrBqt-R_CEHNp-7nQuSI0t7o&hl=en&ei=-_nKS-yvAsL48Aax1fD4BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false]