Born in Waterville, New York, Eastman moved to Rochester with his family as a young boy.

The company, originally Pitcairn Aviation, began in the early 1920s when civil aviation consisted mainly of barnstorming and stunt flying.

Born in Flint, Michigan, in 1861, Durant left high school before graduating to become a traveling cigar salesman.

Founded by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (1771–1834) in 1802, the company began as a manufacturer of gunpowder.

Duke was born near Durham, North Carolina, to Washington and Artelia Roney Duke. He received his basic education in local academies and attended the Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Born in Devonshire, England, to a prominent family with landed interests in the West Indies, Duer was educated at Eton College and commissioned as an ensign in the British army.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born in Vienna, Austria- Hungary, on November 19, 1909, the son of a prominent lawyer and civil servant. After receiving his secondary education in 1927, he pursued advanced studies at the Universities of Hamburg and Frankfurt, Germany.

A major securities dealer and underwriter in the 1980s, best known for introducing, underwriting, and trading high-yield, or junk, bonds.

Born in Philadelphia, Drexel’s father was Francis M. Drexel, a prominent city banker from a wellknown Catholic family. Anthony joined the family firm at age 13 as an apprentice and was made a partner in 1847.

Born in Carmel, New York, Drew became the best-known and most feared stock trader of his era.

The first stock market index devised and widely used in the United States.

Founded by Herbert H. Dow (1866–1930), chemist and horticulturist, in Midland, Michigan, in 1897, the company is the second-largest chemical company in the United States.

Born in Chicago, Disney studied drawing informally as a youth. After a series of odd jobs, he studied art in the evening at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1918, he served as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in France.

An investment banking house founded by William Read in 1905. Its predecessor, Vermilye & Co., was founded in 1832.

The process of lifting governmental restrictions that had been placed on certain industries since the Great Depression.

Better known by its acronym, DIDMCA, the act was passed by Congress in 1980.

Also known as the Garn–St. Germain Act, named after its two congressional sponsors, Senator Jake Garn of Utah and Representative Fernand St. Germain of Rhode Island, the act was passed to aid thrift institutions. In the mid- to late 1970s and early 1980s

Born in Vermont in 1804, Deere’s father was British, and his mother was the daughter of a British army officer who served during the American Revolution.

Eugene Victor Debs was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on November 5, 1855, the son of French immigrant parents. At 14 he quit school to join the RAILROADS and spent several years employed as a paint scraper.

Born in Ohio, Dawes’s family traced its origins to the Mayflower.

Ratings of the creditworthiness of business borrowers were provided historically in the United States by two types of firms: credit-reporting agencies and credit-rating agencies.

Plastic cards that pay for financial transactions by extending credit to the user when the purchase or transaction is complete.

Precipitous stock market price drops.

Cotton has played an important role in the growth and development of U.S. agriculture, industry, and trade almost from the birth of the nation.