Steven Paul Jobs was born in California in 1955 and adopted by a machinist and his accountant wife.
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.
Lido (Lee) Anthony Iacocca was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on October 15, 1924, to Italian immigrants.
Born in Houston, Hughes’s family was in the oil drilling business. His father developed an oil bit capable of drilling to previously unreachable areas, and the company became the Hughes Tool Co. Howard Jr. was a tinkerer as a youth and attended several colleges, including Rice Institute, but never graduated.
The Hudson’s Bay Company is one of the longest-lived business organizations in history. It was chartered by the British Crown in 1670 to trade for furs in the drainage basin of Hudson Bay.
A form of industrial organization designed to hold the stock of other companies.
Hill was born in Ontario and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, at age 16 after the death of his father. He found work with a steamboat line and soon became a partner in the company.
A protective tariff introduced in Congress by Representative Willis Hawley and Senator Reed Smoot in 1930.
Established in 1908, the school became the first postgraduate school of business to require an undergraduate degree for admission.
Born in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, by age 14 Harriman was employed on Wall Street. In 1870, Harriman became a member of the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, specializing in railroad securities.
Hamilton, an American politician and first secretary of the Treasury, was born on the island of Nevis in the West Indies in 1755.
Alan Greenspan was born in New York City on March 6, 1926, the child of divorced parents.
Paper money first issued by the U.S. Treasury during the Civil War. Unlike other notes in circulation, issued by state banks, greenbacks did not have gold or silver backing. In the 19th century, this was called “nonredeemable into specie.”
Better known as the A&P, the company was founded as the Great American Tea Company on Vesey Street in lower Manhattan in 1859 by George Huntington Hartford and George Gilman.
