Encyclopedia of american business history part 14 pps

... 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 ... 365 refining business. The oil business brought many railroads to Cleveland, and many of the lines soon began competing for business by offering favorable rate schedules, which...

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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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... 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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... best known of which was for SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. in 1906. The first nonfamily member of the firm was not admitted to a partnership until 1924. Most of the partners were members of the Lehman ... the policies of progressivism began to attack the lenient attitude of government toward business. The administration of William McKinley was the last in which a hands-off policy to...

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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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... 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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... 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 ... Factory, a prime beaver pelt had a price of 1 MB, and a gun had a price of 14 MB. Thus, at the official rate, guns and beaver pelts traded at a ratio of 14 to 1. Post...

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