Made in the U.S.A: The History of American BusinessNarrative of 350 years of American business, including the persons, events and inventions of the past. |
Contents
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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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Page 113 - ... without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 62 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.
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References to this book
Entrepreneurship Education: Current Developments, Future Directions Calvin A. Kent No preview available - 1990 |
Entrepreneurship Education: Current Developments, Future Directions Calvin A. Kent No preview available - 1990 |