Encyclopedia of american business history part 14 pps
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...
Encyclopedia of american business history part 3 pps
... 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...
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 ... 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...
Encyclopedia of american business history part 7 pps
... 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...
Encyclopedia of american business history part 10 ppsx
... 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...
Encyclopedia of american business history part 1 ppt
... . 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...
Encyclopedia of american business history part 2 docx
... 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...
Encyclopedia of american business history part 4 pdf
... 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...
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 ... 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...
Encyclopedia of american business history part 8 pptx
... 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...