Encyclopedia of american business history part 17 docx

... devaluation. The devaluation part of the package proved to be the longest- standing result of the wage and price controls 480 women in American business businesswoman Susan King cofounded the Woman’s ... doors to nontraditional fields of study, including business. Business- minded women quickly took advantage of the opportu- nity. The proportion of women earning master of...

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... A History of the Bank of New York 178 4–1884. 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 ... busi- ness under the guidance of Francis Baring in 177 6. The partnership served as the major banker to the gentry, British businesses, and the Crown of England. By the time o...

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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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... . 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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... 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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... 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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... virtual dominance of the industry. In 1998, the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department filed suit against Microsoft, charging Gates, Bill 179 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates (GETTY IMAGES) 177 G Gallatin, ... 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...

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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 ... secretary of the Treasury under Washington in 178 9. Disputes with Madi- son and Jefferson in the early 179 0s led to the development of the Federalist Party, which he led...

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... manager of Bethlehem Steel’s Fore River Shipyard, south of Boston. Shortly after the armistice Kennedy became office manager of the brokerage of Hayden, Stone and Company, where he developed a particular ... majority of profit from all future releases, whereas Disney’s take would be reduced to 10 percent. Failing that, Jobs was will- ing to offer PIXAR’s services to any one of a n...

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