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- 1521: The Working Class In Middletow
- ... and sixties were some of the most prosperous times for the working class. The New Deal was still in full effect as far as creating employment and welfare benefits. The cold war also played a big role in these more prosperous times. With the United States so caught up into trying to show the Soviet Union how much better off we were, many working class families benefited from this. The idea ... closing of these factories does concern many Middletown residents and future downsizing is a definite possibility. With jobs not as abundant in the 1990's as they were in the past education is playing a big role for the working class. More working class children graduate from high school and continue there education through college or trade schools. Today one doesn't have to be from the business class to fit ...
- 1522: The History of General Motors
- ... production, and founded the Flint Road Cart Company. Here's the story of how Billy Durant's entrepreneurial spirit planted the seeds of the world's largest industrial corporation. 1899 - 1907: LITTLE BUICK BECOMES A BIG SUCCESS In 1899, Scottish-born David Buick turned from plumbing to making engines and went into business as an automobile manufacturer. By 1903, though, his Buick Motor Company was in financial trouble. In an effort ... in 1967. Meanwhile, GM was developing guidance and navigation systems that would take the Apollo II astronauts to the moon and back in 1969, the year the company celebrated its 50th anniversary. Midsize cars with big engines gathered momentum until, in 1970, every GM division but Cadillac offered them. But by 1971, public and government concern about exhaust emissions cast a shadow over the demand for high performance. New regulations, which ...
- 1523: Comparing The Anti-utopias Of
- ... It is instead drugged away to the point where a person does not care any more and has no need to see a purpose to life. In 1984, religion is just altered and redirected at Big Brother instead of at God. All people worship and are made to love Big Brother and the purpose of everyone s life is just to serve him. Brave New World and 1984 are two very similar novels. They both presented worlds in which emotion and longing was stamped out ...
- 1524: The Life of Ian Fleming
- ... way, he has an exciting car chase, has several affairs with beautiful, exotic women, he kills the evil mastermind and saves the day for the British government. Fleming wrote other books too, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Casino Royale, Dr. No, Octopussy, Live and Let Die, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and From Russia with Love.
- 1525: Industrial Revolution
- ... government to return his rail road workers, he was arrested and the workers were forced to work. In 1890, for example, Congress passed the Sherman Anti-trust Act. This law’s purpose was to punish big business corporations that merged to eliminate competition. “Survival of the fittest” ideal of the social Darwinists were destroying the small businesses. Yet more and more it was being used as a weapon against unions. The ... to maim and kill for stopping union strikes. These rapid changes in the ways of business caused a wide spread of socialism. Many common workers believed that the government should take full control of the big business and industries to regulate price, working condition, and enforce illegal ‘deals’ between industries to wipe out competition. I believe that total overthrow of the country’s economic system would not have accomplished the goal ...
- 1526: Heavy Weather at American Airlines
- Heavy Weather at American Airlines Business Week Heavy Weather at American Jan.27 1997 pg 32 There is a big shake up at American Airlines. The pilots want more money but management has already spent it. Another strike you say. Yip, looks like it. The chief executive of American Airlines was stunned when on January ... not even keep up with inflation. It looks as though a strike would be very unlikely because of the amount of money involved, somewhere around fifty million a day would be lost by American. That big of a loss could be very detrimental to any company. What can management do with a dilemma like this? It seem that they departed without knowing where they were going to land. They should have ...
- 1527: Mob Involvement With Prohibition
- ... spend their time and money in bootleggers houses getting drunk. Rarely do the rich and the poor agree on anything. But, prohibition contributed to an increased sense of community and neighborly love. Prohibition also brought big business to the small businessman. Alcohol making used to be done by all the large companies. With prohibition the big companies were put out and the small businesses had to meet the demand. This was what I was referring to earlier by creating a huge business opportunities for the hard-working little guy, rather than ...
- 1528: Martin Luther King
- ... and grows with us but Dr. King never lost focus of his goals. One of his childhood goals was realised as he began his ministry and public speaking; that was to speak with eloquence and , " big words". He preached a social gospel to fulfil his dream of a just society for all: "...the church must incessantly raise its voice in prophetic warning against the social evils in all the institutions of ... goals. Martin Luther viewed moderate white people as a stumbling block as they were anxious for order but not necessarily justice. Peace to whites often meant suppression of black people. Dr. King could see the, "big picture", of the political climate. He realised the effectiveness of white brutality to the black cause as the American public was shocked and horrified as they viewed on television. Then they and the government were ...
- 1529: Manhattan Project
- ... which was critical to making the atomic bomb.4 Richard Feyman was another scientist which worked on the atomic bomb. Feyman graduated from Princeton where he excelled in physics and other scientific studies. Feyman's big duty on the Manhattan Project was to break big problems into smaller easier to do problems.4 The Manhattan Project, also had to have facilities for the research and testing of the atomic bomb. Some of the facilities built by U.S. Army Corps ...
- 1530: Mafia - A History
- ... gambling and bootlegging. Every large city soon had its own Mafia chapter. Prohibition which was a legal ban on the manufacturer and sale of intoxicating drinks generated a wave of illegal activity since there was big money to be made. During this time, gangsters openly flaunted their wealth and power. This period established many young men as leaders in the New Age American Mafia. Charles Luciano, born in 1897 in Sicily ... more powerful "Five Pointers Gang" where he became acquainted with Luciano. When Johnny Torrio, the original leader of the "Five Pointers Gang" moved to Chicago, he invited Capone to be his sidekick. Torrio's uncle, "Big Jim" Colisimo was the crime boss in Chicago. Trouble between uncle and nephew started and Capone was hired to kill the uncle leaving Torrio in charge of all Chicago. In 1925 when Torrio was severally ...
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