Made in the U.S.A: The History of American Business

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Beard Books, 2003 - 308 стор.
Narrative of 350 years of American business, including the persons, events and inventions of the past.
 

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The Beginnings
1
Ben Franklin The First Success Story
15
William Byrd II The Southern Exposure
26
The American Revolution
38
A Great Meeting
50
The Hamiltonian Scenario
63
Exciting Infrastructures
75
Inventive Genius
91
R W and J C
160
An American Institution Henry Ford
173
The Progressive Compromise
188
More Inventive Genius
204
Business and Government The 1930s
222
World War II
235
The Fabulous Fifties
250
Fine Points
265

The Southern Dilemma
107
The Business Values of Society
120
Unsettling Times 18651900
135
Rocky and Andy
146
Select Bibliography
277
Index
279
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Сторінка 15 - I then came home, 10 and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for...
Сторінка 14 - I thank God, I like so well to be here as I do not repent my coming, and if I were to come again, I would not have altered my course, though I had foreseen all these afflictions. I never fared better in my life, never slept better, never had more content of mind...
Сторінка 7 - For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word throughout the world.

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