Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Land studied at Harvard, where he became interested in the physics of polarized light.
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Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Land studied at Harvard, where he became interested in the physics of polarized light.
Born in upstate New York, Lamont’s father was a Methodist minister.
A French term meaning “allow to do,” it was transformed into an economic theory stating that business should be allowed to operate with as little government interference as possible.
Investment banking firm founded by two German immigrants—Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb—in 1867 in New York.
A department store chain originally founded in 1899 by Sebastien Sperling Kresge (1867–1966), a tinware salesman, as the S. S. Kresge Co.
A private Boston banking firm founded by Henry Kidder, Francis Peabody, and Oliver Peabody in 1865. Previously, the firm had been known as Thayer & Co., founded by John Eliot Thayer in 1824.
Son of a Cambridge logician and political economist, John Maynard Keynes was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge.
Kennedy was the progenitor of an American political dynasty. Despite poor marks in economics, after graduating from Harvard College in 1912, Kennedy was drawn to a career in banking, serving as a Massachusetts assistant state bank examiner between 1912 and late 1913.
Kaiser was born in New York in 1882. After holding a number of menial jobs, he moved to Spokane, Washington. He learned the construction business and began to bid on public works projects, first in Canada and then in the United States.
New York advertising agency opened in 1871 by J. Walter Thompson; it made a fortune in the ADVERTISING INDUSTRY.
Born on August 5, 1882, in Fort Scott, Kansas, Hugh S. Johnson was the son of Samuel L. Johnson, an attorney and rancher, and Elizabeth Mead Johnson.
Steven Paul Jobs was born in California in 1955 and adopted by a machinist and his accountant wife.
The part of banking that is concerned with securities underwriting and trading as well as other specialized financial services.
Technically, the name of this legislation was the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, one of a series of laws passed over a 50-year period that created the federal highway system.
A federal agency established by Congress in 1887 to regulate the RAILROADS. The ICC was created by the Interstate Commerce Act.
A banking law passed by Congress, and the first significant change in the structure and geography of banking since the 1920s.
A computer-based communications system allowing users to communicate quickly without relying upon telephone communication.
Chicagobased manufacturer and distributor of agricultural machinery, trucks, and construction equipment.
IBM has been a worldwide leader in data processing for more than a century—first in electromechanical punched card tabulating machines, and then in digital computers and associated peripherals, software, and services.
Insurance is a means of spreading risk across a large group of people.
Born in London, Insull served as secretary for the London agent of Thomas A. EDISON until 1881.
Manufacture is the process of physically transforming raw materials, semifinished goods, or subassemblies into product(s) with higher value.
While a number of states and municipalities experimented with an income tax throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the first federal income tax in the United States was not instituted until the Civil War, as a direct response to the national war emergency.
