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- 831: The Colonial Economy
- ... was not an economical way to get there! He didn't know this.) In the colonial period, international trade was a very risky venture and required more capital (money) than did any other form of business. To obtain the necessary amount of capital, a new form of organization was developed, the joint-stock company. It was similar to today's corporations. Colonization was also carried out in this way because it ... development of factories, which were were concentrated in the North. Pennsylvania ultimately became the chief destination of white emigrants. While in the Middle and New England colonies colonists handled much of the import and export business, in the South British citizens dominated this business. An unfavorable balance of trade drained gold from the colonies. Due to this and the fact that, unlike some of Spain's colonies in Latin America, little gold was found during the Colonna period ...
- 832: History of the Automotive Industry and Ford Motor Company
- ... During the early years, every car was built entirely by hand. This process was not only very slow, but it was very expensive. This is the primary reason so many early innovators went out of business and the other ones were not profitable enough to expand their business. Henry Ford changed that when he introduced the assembly line. This both increased production speed and decreased cost. This idea of mass production revolutionized the automobile industry. Soon all of the top auto producers would ... almost stopped. This huge decrease in demand forced major cutbacks in spending, factories were closed, employees were laid off, and production was almost halted. Many of the smaller plants couldn't afford to stay in business. The United States time of prosperity had ended. WWII During the early 1940s, the United States as Hitler rose to power in Germany, and our relationship with Japan grew more and more tense. When ...
- 833: Avarice In America
- ... out do each other and control the power in society. They were not as glorious and generous as some people make them out to have been. In laissez-faire capitalism, there are no restrictions on business so the enterprising capitalists were able to obtain monopolies by combining with other companies or simply buying them out. By doing this, the owners could raise the price of their goods or services to an ... to do the same menial factory jobs for pennies a day. This angered the Unions of America because their livelihood depended on the American working class. The Unions then persuaded the government to regulate the business giants and control the amount of money the companies could take in by disallowing monopolies and child labor. The "Kings of Capitalism" disregarded the impact their actions had on the lives of the working class ... Barons had no qualms about ruining the lives of the people that worked for them and of society in general. The only good to come of their despicable actions were the laws that regulated big business because the owners, devoid of decency, could not control themselves. The working class will never be allowed to collapse, however, because the upper class needs them. Still, the upper class continues to oppress the ...
- 834: The History of Computers
- ... computer people lost interest in this type of inventions.10 Eventually inventions afterwards would cause a demand for calculations capability that computers like Babbage's would capable of doing. In 1890 an new era of business computing had evolved. This was a development in punch card use to make a step towards automated computing, which was first used in 1890 by Herman Holler. Because of this human error was reduced dramatically ... minuet. This was a means of easily accessible me memory of unlimited size.12 In 1896 Hollerith had founded his company Tabulating Machine Company, but later in 1924 after several mergers and take-overs International Business Machines (IBM) was formed. An invention during this time ,1906, would influence the way that computers were built in the future, it is the first vacuum, and a paper was wrote by Alan Turingthat described ... It seem as if over time computers have evolved in to totally different machines but if you put it in to perspective they are also much alike. But on the other hand With almost every business and many families today are in demand of better and newer computers it seems that if you buy a new computer today industry had made it obsolete before you it. This is probably because ...
- 835: Privateers
- ... not uncommon for a privateer captain to request one of the captured ships for the bulk of his compensation. He could take this ship, hire the best men from his previous crew, and go into business for himself. This resulted in a vacancy on his original ship, and experienced mates often moved up to the position of captain. Additionally, talented officers on a privateer owned ship faced great prospects for their ... officers could further their own careers. At the end of the revolution, there were privateers who had as many as ten ships in their service. These men would retire from commanding ships, and oversee the business of "corporate" privateering. This system quickly blossomed after the beginning of the war and was an economic boom for the maritime sector. This boom was due to the fact that American privateers were "damn good ... ocean, perhaps destroying some infrastructure in the colonies, but having no effect on British trade. The American privateers were quick to prove them wrong. The assaults of the privateers on British merchant ships cost English business eighteen million dollars throughout the course of the war. The estimated value of the ships that were captured totaled almost twenty four million dollars. Combined, this makes approximately forty two million dollars lost to ...
- 836: Economincs
- ... causes the dismissal of hardworking people who are happy with their current income. When the firing axe starts to fall, seniority often determines who goes and who stays. The more a single employee costs a business an hour, the fewer employees the business can afford to employee an hour. This results in the dismissal of employees to compensate for a raise in labor costs, which creates a smaller staff, which results in slipshod service. Although most reasonable people ... The laborers are simply replaced because of a need for more employees, more often than not by people who have never worked in those positions before. By having a staff that is constantly fluctuating, the business hurts itself the service is hurt because the new employees are in need of training, and in the end it is us, the consumers, who feel the real pain The pain we experience is ...
- 837: The Trancontinental Railroad
- ... Judah was nominated to find people who would invest heavily in the companies. On one of his crusades for investors, Judah gave a speech in Sacramento. In California he stated, “You will have control of business interests that will make you fortune and fame” (Blumberg 22). After his speech he had only convinced one person, Collis Huntington. Later, Judah gave another speech above Huntington’s store, which was the most prosperous hardware store in the West. “Judah also managed to persuade Mark Hopkins, Huntington’s partner, Charles Crocker, who owned a grocery store, and Leland Standford, who operated a wholesale grocery business, to invest” (Blumberg 22). These men became known as the “Big Four”; they became the men who operated the Union and Central Pacific Railroad Companies. Standford was appointed president of the Union and Central Pacific ... Chinese Exclusion. Columbia University Press, 1993. Faragher, John. The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History. New York: Henry Holt Company, Inc., 1998. Geoffrey, Ward. The West. Boston: The West Project, Inc., 1996. Klein, Maury. Unfinished Business. United States of America: The University Press of New England, 1994. McCready, Albert. Railroads In The Days of Steam. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1960. Wheeler, Keith. The Railroaders. New York: Time Life ...
- 838: Leonard Bernstein
- ... at the piano, they wanted him to concentrate on his school work. They thought of piano playing as a waste of time because it stood in the way of Leonard's learning his father's business, which they planned for him to eventually take over. At the age of ten, Leonard found a piano teacher who would give him lessons for a dollar a lesson. But that teacher soon moved away ... He encouraged Bernstein to join him at the Boston Symphony's rehearsals. He also encouraged him to consider becoming a conductor. Bernstein felt he must get away from his fathers persistent nagging to join his business, so he left home and found a place for himself in music in New York City. Bernstein attended the Curtis Institute for two years, where his main interest was in conducting. For the summers of ... only a few hours to prepare himself for a long and complicated program that included the world premiere of Miklo`s Ro`zsa's Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song. Bernstein appeared wearing a gray business suit, which was the first time a conductor had worn everyday clothes at a Philharmonic concert. Soon after, he appeared with the Pittsburg and Boston orchestras and became conductor of the New York City ...
- 839: Events Of The Civil Rights Mov
- ... affected adolescents that were apart of the movement. Mamie Bradley lectured around the country calling herself a "nobody" and her son " a little nobody that shook up the world". She used to believe that the business of blacks in the South was their own business, but then saw that it was everyone's business. The murder of Emmett Till gave the first spark to the civil rights movement. A few months later Mrs. Rosa Parks did not give up her seat. Little Rock Nine On September 25, 1957, ...
- 840: John F. Kennedy and Cuba
- ... not be farther from the truth. Instead, it was the result of a complex combination of domestic and foreign events. When President Kennedy was in office, he had to deal with many issues, ranging from business and finance to crime-fighting and war issues. Perhaps it is not as important to decide who it was that killed him, but why. President Kennedy's decisions and courses of action were not popular ... MIC, war is the equivalent of winning the lottery. An aggressive president who does not hesitate to go into war is the ideal choice for the MIC. The MIC thrives on war, seeing it as "business", every time a weapon has to be replaced the MIC gets richer, and the taxpayer gets poorer. The MIC couldn't care less about Americans dying in war as long as the cash is flowing ... these groups were intimidated by the Kennedy administration. Kennedy tried to find a middle road between black and white radicals. His human-rights activities earned him the hatred of all racists. And as for big business, he angered them by obliging steel manufacturers to reverse price increases, as well as introducing a tax-reform legislation that would end unfair tax practices and would abolish the profitable oil reduction allowance. International ...
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