Encyclopedia of american business history part 6 pps

... 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 ... Progressives: A Social History of Stock and Commodity Speculation, 1890–19 36. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1 965 . Geisst, Charles R. Wheels of Fortune: The...

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... amount of trade credit offered by whole- Montage of credit card images, 1 960 (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS) 88 Columbia Broadcasting System them in Connecticut with the help of Eli Whit- ney Jr., son of the ... in the early 1 960 s when the measure was changed to cups of coffee a day. Per capita coffee consumption in the United States was down from its peak of 3.2 cups per day in the 1...

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... time of Goodrich’s death of exhaustion and tuberculosis in a Colorado sanatorium, his firm had become a regional powerhouse with assets of $ 564 ,000, profits of $107,000, and sales of $69 6,000. ... 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 AMERICAN FE...

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... 200th Anniversary of P. Lorillard & Co., 1 760 –1 960 . New York: privately published, 1 960 . Heiman, Rober t. Tobacco and Americans. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1 960 . Robert, Joseph. The Story of T obacco ... best known of which was for SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. in 19 06. The first nonfamily member of the firm was not admitted to a partnership until 1924. Most of the partners wer...

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... after many of the laws were passed. The concept was very similar to the earlier work of journalist Gustavus Myers, whose own book, The History of the Great American Fortunes, was one of the first ... advent of this type of creative pleading, suddenly every business or consumer fraud claim had the potential to be a RICO claim. 362 Revson, Charles the CIO merged with the AME...

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... 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. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized ... 0-8 160 -4350-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. United States—Commerce History Encyclopedias. 2. Business enterprises—United States History Encyclopedias. 3. Indus- tri...

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... Round Table Press, 19 36. Smith, Ralph. Self-Regulation in Action: The Story of the Better Business Bureaus, 1912–1 962 . New York: Association of Better Business Bureaus, 1 962 . Jonathan J. Bean Biddle, ... Rowland. Biography of a Bank: The Story of Bank of America, 1891–1955. New York: Harper & Bros., 1954. Johnston, Moira. Roller Coaster: The Bank of America and the F...

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... American Philosophical Society, 1992. Mason, Bernar d. “Entrepreneurial Activity in New York During the Revolution.” Business History Review (summer 1 966 ): 180–212. Duke, James Buchanan (18 56 1925) ... Schuster , 1 968 . Watts, Steven. The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American W ay of Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Dow Chemical Company Founded by Her- bert H. Dow (1...

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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 ... iron fist for a 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 o...

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... Pittsburgh: Univer- sity of Pittsburgh Pr ess, 1 968 . Interstate Highway Act Technically, the name of this legislation was the Federal-Aid High- way Act of 19 56, one of a series of laws passed over ... 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 enactme...

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