America 1930-1939: Business and the Economy Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 106 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.
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America 1930-1939: Business and the Economy Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 106 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.
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Warren Bechtel, 60, railroad builder and construction magnate, helped build the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge and Boulder Dam, 28 August 1933.

Hernand Behn, 53, capitalist, founder of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, 7 October 1933.

Robert Somers Brookings, 71, Saint Louis woodenware merchant and philanthropist, generous contributor to Washington University, founder of the Brookings Institution, 15 November 193

James A. Campbell, 79, steel manufacturer, president of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, third largest in the United States, 20 September 1933.

Howard Earle Coffin, 64, automobile engineer and industrialist, organized the Hudson Motor Car Company, chairman of the Aircraft Board during World War I, 21 November 1937.

William Sloane Coffin, 54, New York furniture maker and real estate magnate, 16 December 1933.

Gilbert Colgate, 74, president of Colgate-Palmolive- Peet Company, grandson of the founder of Colgate Soap Manufacturing, 5 January 1933.

William Ellis Corey, 68, steel manufacturer, former president of U.S. Steel, 11 May 1934.

Robert Dollar, 87, West Coast shipping magnate and lumberman, president of the Dollar steamship company, 16 May...

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