Encyclopedia of american business history part 13 pot

... of the courthouse in Springfield, Illinois. There were no such things as office buildings filled with hundreds of offices. In the 1860s, a “typical” American office nor- mally had two types of ... use until the end of the 1980s. In the period from 1885 to the start of the Great Depression at the beginning of the 1930s, liter- ally thousands of types, brands, and models of of...

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... many of their patents in 1896, with two- thirds of the business going to GE and a third to Westinghouse. This condition of an established telegraph industry and rising electrical manufacturing businesses ... their customers. Of the six national wireless carriers, only the two largest (Verizon and Cingular) were making a profit by 2003. Part of the cause for the crisis in telecom...

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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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... more industrialized. In 1883, 90 percent of the coffee business was in green coffee sales and only 10 percent was for roasters. By 1 913, 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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... 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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... 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 FEDERATION OF LABOR ... 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 $564,000, profits of $107,000, a...

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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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