Encyclopedia of american business history part 11 pptx

... var- ious stages and levels of organization. The success of larger business enterprises managed by professionally trained managers became the cornerstone of American business in the 20th century. ... yielded control of their compa- nies to professionals. The term helps distinguish the early period of American business, leading to the Civil War, with the period that followed...

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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 ... the Embargo Act of 1807 brought all American trade to a virtual standstill and eliminated the business of marine insurance companies during most of 1808. With the rest...

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... administration, the Department of Commerce’s Office of Minor- ity Business Enterprise, and the Office of Eco- nomic Opportunity. The NNBL was unable to hold its centennial anniversary at the turn of the 21st ... Columnists pioneered interpretive Pressroom of the New York Times, 1942 (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

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... Report of the Sixth Annual Session of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada. Official Archives of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Individual ... proceeds of the earnings of such railroads, or any portion thereof; and in any case of an agreement for the pooling of freights as aforesaid, each day of its co...

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... . This history of the wage-workers of all countries is but the history of constant struggle and misery engendered by ignorance and dis- union; whereas the history of the non-producers of all ... because of their far-reaching effects on American business and history. While finance and manufacturing remain the two oldest fields in business history, recent developments...

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... 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 ... 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 Futur e...

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... 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 Eli Whit- ney Jr., son of the ... the nature of various businesses rang- ing from Standard Oil to the meatpacking indus- try and illustrating the helplessness of the individual in the face of corporate power. On...

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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 1927. The ... influence over daily routines. By virtue of challenging traditional tenets of mana- gerial authority, his book became one of the most popular texts in busines...

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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 ... formulates the mone- tary policy. It is made up of the governors of each central bank participating in the euro and of the members of the executive board of the Euro...

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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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