Encyclopedia of american business history part 2 docx

... A History of the Bank of New York 1784–1884. New York: Bank of New York, 1884. Nevins, Allan, ed. History of the Bank of New York & T rust Co. New York: privately published, 1934. Bank of ... 1936. Smith, Ralph. Self-Regulation in Action: The Story of the Better Business Bureaus, 19 12 19 62. New York: Association of Better Business Bureaus, 19 62. Jonathan J. Bea...

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... exports of Ameri- can sellers. The combination of the two, along with other forms of credits and guarantees, is part of American trade policy and can signifi- cantly affect the balance of payments. The ... connecting many of the lakes in the interior of the state. In addition to building the canal and serving as governor (1817 22 and 1 825 28 ), Clinton was also a state asse...

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... devaluation. The devaluation part of the package proved to be the longest- standing result of the wage and price controls 480 women in American business businesswoman Susan King cofounded the Woman’s ... the ownership of electric companies became one of the major public policy issues of the 1 920 s. By the latter part of the decade, several larger utility holding companies...

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... States—Commerce History Encyclopedias. 2. Business enterprises—United States History Encyclopedias. 3. Indus- tries—United States History Encyclopedias. I. Title. HF3 021 .G44 20 05 338.0973’03—dc 22 2005003309 Facts ... States. Previously, the only way to attack monopoly in Encyclopedia of American Business History Copyright © 20 06 by Charles R. Geisst All rights r eserved....

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... early 20 th century, dedi- cated to protecting the rights of consumers against big business. The study of consumers became more important after the 1 920 s, when it became clear that 67 percent of ... market of the 1 920 s. After the 1 929 crash, it was resurrected in the securities and banking laws of the NEW DEAL, which sought to offer protection to bank depositors and investors...

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... Modernization Act of 1999 abolished many of the regulations found in the BANKING ACT OF 1933, and the Inter- state Banking Act of 1994 replaced the restrictive branching provisions of the MCFADDEN ACT of 1 927 . The ... producing more than 20 pictures per year, and profits were almost $700,000 per year. Part of the profits was from merchandise tie-ins that Disney helped pione...

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... landscape of Chicago by subsidizing several of its most famous landmarks. These included the University of Chicago, the Academy of Fine Arts, and the Field Museum of Natural History. When he died of ... stan- dard of living. Governments, with the exception of that in North Dakota under the Nonpartisan League until 1 921 , did not agree until the onset of the Great Depressio...

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... while in his 20 s, and he participated in meetings of the International Workingmen’s Association and the Workingmen’s Party of the United States. In 1875, he became the president of a local union. In ... As an officer of FOTLU, Gompers advocated compulsory school attendance laws, the regulation of child labor, and the eight-hour work day. He became presi- dent of the AMERICAN F...

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... com- ponent of this economic thinking was a massive set of tax cuts instituted by the passage of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981. With this law, and the subsequent enactment of the T AX REFORM ACT of ... in the 12 decades follow- ing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. See also CORPORATION. Further reading Atack, Jeremy, and Peter Passell. A New Economic View of Ame...

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... 1 922 , Kennedy bought Film Booking Offices of Amer- ica with a small syndicate of Boston investors in early 1 926 and became the company’s president. Between 1 926 and 1930, Kennedy spent much of ... manager of Bethlehem Steel’s Fore River Shipyard, south of Boston. Shortly after the armistice Kennedy became office manager of the brokerage of Hayden, Stone and Company, where he...

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