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Freedom's forge
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The saga of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation
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"This book presents a history of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation (SFC) set in the context of the country's last large-scale energy crisis, which hit in the 1970s. 'Synthetic fuels' can be derive… |
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America's romance with the English garden
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"The 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced ca… |
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The great Beanie Baby bubble
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"A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s . In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies… |
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Estimation of economies of scale in nineteenth century United States manufacturing
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246 pages : 24 cm |
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The age of the moguls
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Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Drew, Fisk, Harriman, Du Pont, Morgan, Mellon, Insull, Gould, Frick, Schwab, Swift, Guggenheim, Hearst- these are only a few of the foundation giants that hav… |
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Encyclopedia of American business history
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Charles R. Geisst |
This encyclopedia contains most of the key important terms required to understand the history of business in the United States of America. It describes them in brief but detailed and structured entri… |
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