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- 2381: History of Advertising
- ... transport, distribution or communication. Eventually certain type of manufactures thought of the idea of bypassing wholesalers, retailers and using catalogs. Mail orders and pamphlets appeared around the 1870's. Late in the 19th century many American firms began to market packaged goods under brand names. Previously consumers had not been aware of or influenced by brand names. The first product that had brand names were soap products. In the 1880's a few brands came out and they were Ivory, Pears, Sapolio, Colgate, Kirks American Family and Packer's. Not long after brands such as Royal baking powder, Quaker oats, Bakers chocolate, Hire's root beer, Regal shoes and Waterman's pens were nationally advertised. In the early 1900's ... printing inventions helped both editorial and advertising departments of printed journals. In the 1920's the radio was invented and this developed a whole new technique of selling, by voice. During World War 2 the American advertising industry founded the war advertising council this used modern advertising to strengthen the American war effort. The organization still continued after the war was over as ‘The Advertising Council' this was used to ...
- 2382: James Watt Affected The Economic Growth Of Our Nation
- James Watt made many contributions to this country during the Industrial Revolution. He made numerous improvements on the Newcome steam engine, invented the term horse power, and designed the Sun and Planet wheel. He contributed most of his life to make others’ lives easier and for them ... attached to the shaft. The outer disk was formed with a cross shaped part to receive a similar pull on the end of a connection rod. The contributions Watt made to America during the Industrial Revolution were essential in starting it. For example, when Watt was wandering through Glasgow Green he came upon the idea of using less energy to create more power, and this marked the starting point of the revolution. His inventions created a need for steam engines because he made them faster, safer, cleaner, and more economically efficient. And in doing so made the revolution of industry grow tremendously because with a faster ...
- 2383: Financial Report of Loewen Group Inc.
- ... America, one in Burnaby, British Colombia and a second in Cincinnati, Ohio. Loewen Group Inc. (L.G.I.) is the largest funeral services enterprise in Canada and is the second largest company in the North American Funeral Services Industry. L.G.I. owns 918 funeral homes and 269 cemeteries and also engages in the pre-need selling of funeral services including cemetery and cremation services. The company strives on respecting its ... G.I. from the industry. All companies in the Funeral Service Industry are continuing to reposition themselves as the industry continues to expand. If successful, S.C.I. would be able to monopolise the North American market. S.C.I.'s take-over proposal is intended to eliminate the competition in North America. S.C.I. wanted to buy cheap after the one time event with the jury. By taking over ... of Financial Statements All ratios presented show 1995 in the first column and 1994 in the second column. As shown with the return on equity ratio. The dollar figures in the annual report are in American currency. Performance Ratios 1995 1994 Return on equity (76684)/614682 = (0.125) 38494/411139 = 0.094 Return on equity based on the Scott formula (Please refer to Appendix E: for complete figures) ROE = SR * ...
- 2384: Great Depression
- ... This imbalance of wealth created an unstable economy. The stock market was kept artificially high, but eventually lead to large market crashes. These market crashes, combined with the lack of distribution of wealth, caused the American economy to capsize. The "roaring twenties" was an era when our country prospered tremendously. The nation's total realized income rose from $74.3 billion in 1923 to $89 billion in 1929. However, the rewards ... since Europe had to be fed too. However as soon as the war ended, the U.S. abruptly stopped its policies to help farmers. Farm and food prices tumbled. A last major instability of the American economy had to do with international wealth distribution problems. While America was prospering in the 1920's, European nations were rebuilding themselves after the damage of war. During World War I the U.S. government lent its European allies $7 billion. American foreign lending continued in the 1920's climbing to $900 million in 1924. 90% of this money was used by the European allies to purchase U.S. goods. The nations the U.S. had ...
- 2385: Margaret Sanger
- ... anything at all that drew his suspicion. There was no rhyme or reason, no guidelines or rules about it; it was simply his judgment. Comstock personally decided what was too lewd or vulgar for the American population to send or receive via the mail (Miller 210). Though the impact of this may be lost on us today, it is important to remember that every major magazine, circular, and journal was sent ... Church, which, apparently, could control both the government and the police force of New York. Still, the public, the press, and the medical profession were all backing her now and, in 1921, she founded the American Birth Control League. The League was part of Margaret's campaign to educate the general public and gain more mainstream support for birth control. In what seemed almost a contradictory move, Margaret sought the support ... willing to take the risk of heading up the clinic staff. Dr. Dorothy Bocker accepted the position and in January of 1923, the Clinical Research Bureau opened at the same Fifth Avenue address as the American Birth Control League, though they were to be kept separate so that the League might escape criticism when the Bureau came under attack. The opening was not publicized, in fact, it was not even ...
- 2386: Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, Or None Of The Above
- ... Twain lectured in New York City, and in the same year he visited Europe and Palestine. He wrote of these travels in The Innocents Abroad. This book exaggerated those aspects of European culture that impress American tourists (Bain, Flora, and Rubin 103). Many claim that The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain s second-best book (Unger 198). In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon. After living briefly in Buffalo, New York, the ... formed the firm Charles L. Webster and Company to publish his and other writer s works. The most famous books published there were The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Personal Memoirs, which was written by American general and president Ulysses S. Grant (Mark Twain 2). A disastrous investment in an automatic typesetting machine led to the firm s bankruptcy in 1894. A successful worldwide lecture tour and the book he wrote ... years. Works Cited Bain, Flora, and Rubin. Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. Bloom, Harold. Mark Twain. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Kunitz, Stanley J., and Haycraft, Howard. American Marshall, Sara. America In Literature: The South. New York: Charles Scribner s Son s, 1979. Twain, Mark . Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia. Microsoft Corporation. Unger, Leonard. American Writers IV: A Collection of Literary Biographies. New ...
- 2387: The History of the Pony Express
- ... 1003 “Pony Express”, Comptons Interactive Encyclopedia. Softkey Multimedia Inc. 1996 The Southern Overland mail where Wells Fargo came to own a controlling interest was founded on Sept. 15, 1858 by John Butterfield. Butterfield was an American Express Company director. The Overland Mail stagecoaches went from St. Louis to San Fransico in 24 days through desert, mountains and bands of hostile Indians. There were little Pony Expresses before 1860. The Pony Express that rode its way into American legend was started by Russell, Majors, and Waddell on April 3, 1860. Russell, Majors, and Waddell had its Pony Express riders travel over a central route 2,000 miles between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento ... north and the west coast during the Civil War. The Pony Express helped keep California in the Union. The completion of the Transcontinental telegraph line ended the Pony Express in Oct of 1861. Hawgood, John. American Western Frontiers. Alfred A Knopf: New York. 1972 The Pony Express was born on April 3, 1860. It took only mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in under ten days, at the ...
- 2388: Comparison Of Colonies
- There were various reasons why the American Colonies were established. The three most important themes of English colonization of America were religion, economics, and government. The most important reasons for colonization were to seek refuge, religious freedom, and economic opportunity. To a ... Government was also important in the founding of English colonies in the New World. With each colony, the government and idea of democracy progressed. With a weak and unpredictable government first established in Virginia, the American colonists gradually advanced to a more democratic government. However, even the most democratic government was a far cry from the pure democracy we enjoy today. Their gradual learning experience and progression led to many more ... because it was ruled under the military and was occupied by criminals. It was a quite unpopular place to live. There are clearly many similarities and differences in overall religious, economical, and governmental origins in American colonies. Many colonies were founded for exclusive religious diversity. However, many came to be motivated in origin by economy. Also, the American colonies evolved from non-representative and elitist governments into a more democratic ...
- 2389: AT&T
- AT&T The AT+T Corporation, formerly known as The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was incorporated on March 3, 1885 in New York as a wholly owned subsidiary of The American Bell Telephone Company. Its original purpose was to manage and expand the burgeoning toll (long distance) business of American Bell and its licensees. It continued as the long distance company until December 30, 1899 when it assumed the business and property of American Bell and became the parent company of the Bell System. ...
- 2390: Civil War - The War Of Northern Aggression
- ... great as they claimed to be, and that they went to illegal measures for an unjust cause. The public school system was used as a tool of the government and still is to skew the American mind into believing whatever it wants. For example: at the present time the school child has evolution drilled into their head as fact, even though it has already been accounted for as false. The C ... to accurate. First things first, white men weren’t the only slave holders. In fact, black men started slavery by enslaving their own people in Africa, but that’s beside the point. In the 1830 American census, over 10,000 slaves were owned by other African-Americans (Kennedy 64, 65). This would also have to mean that there were free blacks in the South. Actually when a member of the 12th ... Indiana, Illinois, and Oregon they just weren’t allowed to enter the states at all (Kennedy 55). What does this tell you about what you’ve been taught? The truth is that the average African-American was treated better as a slave than as a free man in the North. The famous William Lloyd Garrison stated that, "The free colored people were looked upon as an inferior caste to whom ...
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