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1919
 
  
Steelworkers go on strike in the US, attempting a major confrontation with industrial management     
1919
 
     
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany        
1920
 
  
The US steel strike collapses after four months, with nothing achieved     
1920
 
    
The Meccano company launches the first of its Hornby model trains       
1921
 
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In a major economic U-turn, Lenin's New Economic Policy allows peasants to hold markets and sell the surplus of their product       
1922
 
    
De Witt Wallace and his wife, working from home, publish the first issue of Reader's Digest       
1922
 
    
British manufacturer Herbert Austin launches Britain's first car for the popular market, the Austin Seven or 'Baby Austin'       
1923
 
    
Henry Luce has an immediate success with a new magazine, calling it simply Time       
1923
 
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German inflation reaches fantasy levels, at 242 million marks to the dollar     
Collecting money from the bank, photo 1923
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1924
 
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A new German currency, the Reichsmark, is launched with the value of a trillion old marks