Encyclopedia of american business history part 5 docx

... 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 ... quarter of a century and left a glittering record of 26 consec- utive years of profit to his successors. When Rickenbacker turned over the leadership of East- ern to M...

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... Rowland. Biography of a Bank: The Story of Bank of America, 1891–1 955 . New York: Harper & Bros., 1 954 . Johnston, Moira. Roller Coaster: The Bank of America and the Futur e of American Banking. ... 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 the United States, Th...

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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 1920s. By the latter part of the decade, several larger utility holding companies c...

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... 0-8160-4 350 -7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. United States—Commerce History Encyclopedias. 2. Business enterprises—United States History Encyclopedias. 3. Indus- tries—United States History Encyclopedias. ... Mifflin, 19 85. Friedman, Jon, and John Meehan. House of Cards: Inside the Troubled Empire of American Express. New York: Putnam, 1992. Grossman, Peter Z. American Express: Th...

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... more industrialized. In 1883, 90 percent of the coffee business was in green coffee sales and only 10 percent was for roasters. By 1913, the numbers were the reverse: 95 percent of the buyers at the exchange ... amount of trade credit offered by whole- Montage of credit card images, 1960 (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) 88 Columbia Broadcasting System them in Connecticut with the help of...

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... Dawes. New York: Henry Holt, 1 953 . Debs, Eugene V. (1 855 –1926) labor organ- izer Eugene Victor Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on November 5, 1 855 , the son of French immigrant parents. At ... 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 provision...

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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 ... the marketing range of farms, allowing them to ship heavier goods farther with little loss of profit. The middle part of the 19th century was marked by expansion, innovati...

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... By the time of Goodrich’s death of exhaustion and tuberculosis in a Colorado sanatorium, his firm had become a regional powerhouse with assets of $56 4,000, profits of $107,000, and sales of $696,000. ... 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 AMERICA...

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... Act 1 95 H Hamilton, Alexander (ca. 1 755 –1804) poli- tician Hamilton, an American politician and first secretary of the Treasury, was born on the island of Nevis in the West Indies in 1 755 . As ... benefit packages. Although 75 percent of Americans were enrolled in some type of health insurance plan by the end of the 1 950 s, many groups were still excluded from this coverage...

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... 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 developed a particular ... firm deliberately refused to partici- pate in the largest loan to date, the Anglo-French loan of 19 15. Partners of the firm remained sym- pathetic to the plight of European...

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