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1900-1909
  • land of business oppotunity

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  • Social and demographic about 1900s
  • 76 million Americans in 45 states in 1900 grows
    to 92 million in 46 states by 1909
  • Police arrest woman for smoking in public
  • 8000 cars 10 million of paved roads

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Social and demographic about 1900s
  • New York enacts speed limit law 10 mph in
    city,15 mph in small towns, 20 mph in country
  • W.E.B. Dubois establishes the national
    association for the advancement of colored people
  • 96 auto death and 115 lynching's in 1900

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Social and demographic about 1900s
  • 20 percent of labor force is composed of
    children, ages 10 to 15
  • fads bobbed hair, nickelodeons, barbershop
    quartets
  • games ping pong, baseball

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Social and demographic about 1900s
  • New words teddy bear,muckrakermelting pot,
    pork barrel
  • average annual earnings(1900)375
  • life expectancy(1900) 48.3 years for females,
    46.3 years for males

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The sears, roebuck co. catalog brought a host of
new products to rural America.
Cyrus H.K. Curtis (1850-1933), publisher of
ladies home journal and Saturday evening post.
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Business event that shaped the 1900s
date
Event
1900 Hawaii and Puerto Rico becomes U.S
territories 1901 Consolidation of U.S steel
corporation ,first billion dollar
corporation 1901 Oil discovered in Texas 1902
Willis carrier invent the air conditioner 1903
Wright brothers invent the first gas-powered and
manned airplane 1904 Supreme court dissolve
northern securities
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Business event that shaped the 1900s
DATE
EVENT
1904 WORK BEGINS ON PANAMA CANAL 1905 SUPREME
COURT INDICTS BEEF TRUST 1905 SEAR OPENS
CHICAGO MAIL-ORDER PLANT 1905 FIRST DRIVE-IN
GAS STATION OPENS, IN ST. LOUIS 1906 Congress
passes pure food and drug act 1907 U.S
immigration peaks 1908 First ford model T sold
1909 Bakelite( first synthetic plastic)
introduced by Leo Baekeland 1909 congress
passes corporate income tax
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W.E.B dobuis
Willis carrier
Wright brothers
First drive in gas station
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  • 1910-1919

breaking frontiers
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business events that shaped the 1910s
  • Date Event
  • 1910 First mail carried by plane flown from
    Albany to new York city in Glenn
    curtsies air plane
  • 1910 Henry ford starts manufacturing
    plant at highland park, Michigan

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business events that shaped the 1910s
  • 1911 Triangle shirtwaist company fire kill
    146 and sparks worker safety
  • Movement
  • 1911 standard oil company required by
  • u.s. supreme court to divest its
  • holdings

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business events that shaped the 1910s
  • 1911 American Tobacco company required by u.s.
    supreme court to divest its
  • holdings
  • 1911 Frederick w. Taylor publishes the
    principle of scientific management
  • 1913 Congress passes tariff reform bill

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business events that shaped the 1910s
  • 1913 Congress creates national banking
  • structure - federal reserve act
  • 1913 U.S .federal income tax introduced
    by sixteenth Amendment

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business events that shaped the 1910s
  • 1913 Ford deploys modern assembly line
  • in automobile production
  • 1914 Congress passes Clayton Antitrust
  • act and established federal trade
  • commission
  • 1914 Ford establishes minimum 5 per-
  • day wage for 8-hour workday

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business events that shaped the 1910s
  • 1914 Panama canal opens
  • 1915 Delaware liberalize incorporation
  • laws
  • 1916 Radio tuners invented
  • 1916 War industries board created to
  • oversea mobilization for war
  • effect.

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business events that shaped the 1910s
  • 1916 Congress passes highway act
  • to develop nations roadways
  • 1917 Congress passes stringent new
  • immigration laws
  • 1917 United states enters world war 1

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business events that shaped the 1910s
  • 1917 United states takes over
  • nations railroads to support
  • to world war 1
  • 1918 World war 1 ends
  • 1919 Eighteenth amendment for
  • prohibition of alcohols is
  • ratified

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social and demographic facts about the 1910s
  • 92 million Americans' in 46 states ( 42 million
    urban residents and 50 million rural residents
  • national dept 1.15 billion
  • movie attendence30 million per week
  • less than 10 percent of all automobiles are
    closed model ,with windows and doors.

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social and demographic facts about the 1910s
  • first parachute jump
  • titanic sinks in 1912 , killing more than 1,500
    passengers
  • 76 lynching
  • Nevada grants divorces after 6 months of
    residence

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social and demographic facts about the 1910s
  • Margaret Sanger , who coined the term birth
    control is arrested in network for distributing
    information on contraception
  • fads hobble skirt, striped trousers,
  • ballroom dancing , the fox-trot ,speeding

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social and demographic facts about the 1910s
  • games erector sets, Lincoln logs, tinker toy
    sets, pogo sticks
  • new words movies, Gl , d-day
  • Average annual earnings(1910) 517
  • life expectancy (1910) 51.8 years for females,
    48.4 years for males.

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1920-1929
  • from prosperity to Despair

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social and demographic facts about the 1920s
  • 106 million Americans in 48 state grows to 123
    million by 1930
  • For the first time more workers employed in
    manufacturing than agriculture
  • Average unemployment rate of 5.2 percent

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social and demographic facts about the 1920s
  • women's suffering amendment to the U.S
    constitution is ratified
  • Divorce rate increase from 1 out of 17
    marriages in the 1890s to 1 out of 6 by the 1920s
  • military force of 343000 (down from 1.2 million
    in 1919)
  • First Macy's thanksgiving parade, held in 1924

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social and demographic facts about the 1920s
  • John T. scopes is tried for teaching evolution
    in a Tennessee school
  • fads yoga, nudist colonies, dance marathons ,
    flagpole sitting
  • games Ouija boards, crossword puzzle

John T. scopes
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social and demographic facts about the 1920s
  • NEW WORDS racketeering, media, normalcy,
    motel, speakeasies, mass production
  • Average annual earnings(1920)1,236
  • life expetancy(1920) 54.6 years for
    females,53.6 years for males

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business event that shaped the 1920s
  • 1920 Alfred P.Sloan jr. presents first
    reorganization plans for General Motors fully
    implemented by 1924

EVENT
DATE
Alfred p.sloan
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business event that shaped the 1920s
  • 1920 SEARS INTRODUCES
  • INSTALLMRNT PAYMENT STATION
  • 1920 KDKA in Pittsburgh-first licensed radio
    station
  • 1921 secretary of commerce chairs first
    commission on unemployment

DATE
EVENT
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business event that shaped the 1920s
  • 1921 U.S post office department
    experiments with airmail
  • 1921 General accounting office
    created
  • 1922 teapot dome scandal
  • 1922 Congress adopts protectionist
    tariffs

DATE
event
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business event that shaped the 1920s
  • 1922 first radio commercial aired by
    ATT's weaf
  • 1922 Insulin invented by sir Frederick Grant
    banting
  • 1923 first traffic signal invented

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business event that shaped the 1920s
  • 1924 employee productivity studied at western
    electrics Hawthorne plant
  • 1925 MIT engineer devises first modern computer
  • 1925 ATT sends photo by wire to three cities
    simultaneously

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business event that shaped the 1920s
  • 1926 Income tax reduction act signed
  • 1926 Robert H. Goddard launches first
    liquid-fuel rocket
  • 1927 federal radio commission formed

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business event that shaped the 1920s
  • 1927 Charles Lindbergh is first to fly nonstop
    from new York to Paris
  • 1927 First talking movie- the jazz singer
  • 1927 U.S wages become the highest in the world

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business event that shaped the 1920s
  • 1928 WGY of Schenectady broadcasts first
    scheduled TV program in united states
  • 1929 Frozen foods offered to the public by
    Clarence Birdseye
  • 1929 Car radio introduced by Paul V.Galvin of
    Motorola

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1930-1939
  • Survival through adaption
  • and renewal

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social and demographic facts about 1930s
  • 123 million Americans' in 48 states(60 percent
    urban) grows to 123 million by 1940
  • Unemployment rate hit 25 percent (never below
    14 percent)

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  • Dust bowl storm destroy million of farms
  • star-spangled banner named national anthem
  • New York city installs first traffic lights
  • Zippers replace buttons
  • Ninth major planet discovered-Pluto
  • games monopoly, parlor games

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Harold Stanley waiting to testify during the
reopening of the senate banking and currency
committee inquiry in 1933.the bearings set the
stage for the passage of the banking act, which
provided impetus for the formation of Morgan,
Stanley company.
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Margaret Rudkin displaying the bread the became
the foundation for the success of Pepperidge farm.
Charlie Chaplin a scene from the 1936 movie
MODERN TIMES a scabbing parody of
industrialization.
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The alphabet soup of government programs during
the great depression of the 1930s.
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Business event that shaped the 1930s
DATE
EVENT
  • 1930 PRESIDENT Hoover signs protectionist
    Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill
  • 1930 State department prohibits almost
    immigration of foreign workers
  • 1930 World largest bank formed with merger of
    chase national and equitable trust
  • 1931 Empire state building completed ,only 46
    percent occupied

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Business event that shaped the 1930s
  • 1932 Reconstruction finance corporation
    authorized
  • 1932 First glass-steagall banking act expands
    federal credit
  • 1932 Unemployment reaches all-time high13.7
    million U.S and 30 million worldwide
  • 1932 5000 banks are closed

date
event
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Business event that shaped the 1930s
  • 1932 Instant photography invented by Edwin land
  • 1933 four-day banking holiday declared
    emergency banking relief act passed
  • 1933 Agricultural adjustment act provides
    subsidies to farmers to not grow crops

date
event
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Business event that shaped the 1930s
  • 1933 Federal securities act regulates public
    companies
  • 1933 National recovery administration
    establishes fair labor standards
  • 1933 National labor board created
  • 1933 First recorded sit-down strike-Hormel plant
    in Minnesota

date
event
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Business event that shaped the 1930s
  • 1934 Securities and exchange commission created
  • 1934 Federal housing administration
  • 1935 Work progress administration created
  • 1935 National recovery act and agricultural
    adjustment act ruled unconstitutional
  • 1935 Social security act passed
  • 1935 first DC-3 jet engine flight
  • 1936 Imports exceed exports for the first time
    in ten years

date
event
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Business event that shaped the 1930s
date
event
  • 1936 Consumers union formed
  • 1936 Hoover dam completed
  • 1938 Nylon introduced by DuPont
  • 1938 fair labor standards act passed ,sets
    minimum wage and maximum working hours
  • 1939 Igor sikorsky invent helicopter
  • 1939 Germany invades Poland

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1940-1949
Reaching New Heights Through Stadardization
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Business events that shaped the 1940s
  • 1940 Office of production management created
  • 1940 War production board created
  • 1941 lend-lease act passed
  • 1941 Office of price administration created
  • 1941 United state enters world war 2
  • 1941 300 business join government service for
    1-per-year salary

date
event
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Business events that shaped the 1940s
  • 1941 Union pledge no strikes during war
  • 1942 Emergency price control act passed, sets
    ceiling on prices and rents
  • 1942 Secret Manhattan project commissioned to
    develop atomic bomb

date
event
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Business events that shaped the 1940s
date
event
  • 1943 Tax payment act authorizes federal
    withholding of taxes
  • 1944 International monetary fund and world bank
    created
  • 1945 Axis powers surrender, ending world war2
  • 1945 Alcoa convicted of antitrust violations
  • 1946 U.S farm prices reach all-time high

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Business events that shaped the 1940s
event
  • 1947 All food rationing ends
  • 1947 House committee on un-American activities
    initiated
  • 1947 General agreement on tariffs and trade
    enacted
  • 1948 president Truman authorizes federal takeover
    of striking railroads
  • 1948 Marshall plan commissioned to provide
    relief and support for Europe

date
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Shifts in U.S. employment
  • 1929 11.5million 35.6million 1.5million
  • 1940 9.5million 37.9million 8.1million
  • 1943 9.0million 45.3million 1.0million

Nonagricultural employment
Agriculture employment
year
unemployed
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social and demographic facts the 1940s
  • 132 million Americans' in 48 states grows to
    151 million by 1950
  • Unemployment rate drops to low of 1.2 percent
    during height of war mobilization
  • National debt hits 43billion
  • 55 percent of U.S homes with indoor plumbing

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social and demographic facts the 1940s
  • Cold war begins united states and USSR become
    global superpowers
  • Commercials TV appears
  • Jackie Robinson joins major league-base
    ball-first black player

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social and demographic facts the 1940s
  • Joe DiMaggio of new York Yankees -first player
    to receive over 100000 in salary
  • games slinky, silly putty, Frisbee
  • Average annual earnings(1940)1.299

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The worlds first computer- the room-sized ENICA,
electronic numerical integrator and computer was
used initially by the war department.
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B-24 bombers lined up on the final assembly line
at Henry fords willow runt plant in Detroit. The
plant produced over 8500 B-24 in the mid-1940s.
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  • 1950-1959

feeding the machine of consuption
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social and demographic facts a bout 1950s
  • 151 million Americans in 50 states grows to 179
    million by 1960
  • Alaska and Hawaii admitted to statehood in 1959
  • number of drive-in movie theaters hits 2,200 by
    1950
  • united states produces 52 percent of worlds goods

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social and demographic facts a bout 1950s
  • first air conditioned cars, offered by general
    motors
  • 98 percent of U.S population supplied with
    electricity
  • senator mc Carthy fuels communist paranoia in
    the country

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social and demographic facts a bout 1950s
  • Rosa parks refusal to give up bus seat sparks
    yearlong Montgomery bus boycott
  • in brown v. Topeka board of education the
    supreme court rules against separate but equal
  • Bomb shelter plans widely available

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social and demographic facts a bout 1950s
  • fads hula hoop, poodle skirts, blue jeans ,Davy
    crocket coonskin caps ,3-D movies
  • games Barbie dolls, Mr.. potato head, Hop along
    Cassidy guns and western wear
  • New words rock and roll ,DJ, fast food,UFO

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Ray Kroc(1902-1984) founder of McDonalds eating a
hamburger in front of one of his neon golden
arches.
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Malcolm McLean (1914-2001) on the deck of the
remodeled tanker used for intercostals freight
handling.
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The new seal of the merged American federation of
labor and the congress of industrial
organization. At its peak, the AFL-CIO boasted
over 15 million members.
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Television became a favorite pastime of
Americans' throughout the country
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For the first time, teenagers became a viable
consumer market. The hula hoop was one product in
a long time of both enduring and fleeting fads.
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Fallout shelters became popular during the cold
war escalation in the 1950s and 1960s. This
gasoline- generated Walter Kiddies nuclear
laboratory model could sustain a family of four
for three to five days.
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social and demographic facts a bout 1950s
  • Labor force male-female ratio 5 to 2
  • minimum wage (1950)0.75 per hour
  • annual average earnings( 1950) 2.992
  • life expectancy( 1950) 71.1 years for
    females,65.6 years for males

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • Date Event
  • 1950 United states sends military
  • forces Korea
  • 1950 President Truman authorizes
  • production of hydrogen bomb

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1950 Defense protection act
  • reinstates wage and price
  • controls during Korean war
  • 1950 Celler - Kefauver act closes
  • loophole on asset-based
  • acquisitions

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1950 Color broadcasting first
  • authorized by federal
  • communications commission
  • 1951 AT T becomes first U.S.
  • corporation to record over 1
  • million shareholders

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1952 Texas instruments produces
  • first silicon transistor ( from
  • bell labs patent)
  • 1952 Congress ends price and wage
  • controls
  • 1952 Videotape recorder invented
  • by Charles Ginsburg

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1952 Hasbro's Mr. potato head is the
  • first television commercial aimed
  • at children
  • 1953 Small business Administration
  • created
  • 1953 Triangle publications produces
  • TV guide achieves largest
  • circulation of any Us Magazine.

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1953 Swanson introduces TV dinner
  • 1953 Initial structure of DNA
  • discovered
  • 1953 End of Korean war
  • 1953 Jonas Salk develops vaccine for
  • polio

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1955 Two largest union organizations
  • merge to form 15-million-
  • member AFL-CLO
  • 1955 First fortune 500 list produced
  • general motors tops list
  • 1955 Disneyland opens in California

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1956 White -collar workers outnumber
  • blue-collar workers for first
  • time
  • 1956 Dows Jones industrial average
  • hits high of 500
  • 1956 First fully enclosed mall opens in
  • Edina ,Minnesota

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1957 President Eisenhower signs civil
  • rights act
  • 1957 Russia launches sputnik satellite
  • , beginning space race
  • 1957 Fortran computer programming
  • language invented

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1957 First Japanese car sold in
  • united state Toyota
  • 1958 United state launches first
  • satellite explore1
  • 1958 National aeronautics and space
  • agency created

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business events that shaped the 1950s
  • 1958 American express introduced
  • first widely available credit card
  • 1958 Regular transatlantic jet
  • service instituted
  • 1958 Integrated circuit board invented

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1960- 1969
Business in a bubble
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social and demographic facts about the 1960s
  • 179 million Americans in 50 states grows to
    203 million by 1970
  • 850000 wartime babies enter college
  • California becomes the most populous state
  • Assassination of john F.kennedy,robert
    krnnedy,Martin luther king Jr,and Malcolm x rock
    stability of nation.
  • WOODSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL DRAWS 350000 in 1969

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social and demographic facts about the 1960s
  • Betty Friedan publishes the feminine mystique
  • Wood stock music festival draws 350000 in 1969
  • Minimum wage(1960)1.00 per hour

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Martin Lutber King Jr. leading the Selma,
Alabama, March for racial equality and voting
rights in 1965.
Antiwar student protesters confront federal
troops at the National convention in 1968.
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Ralph Nader advocated for better safety quality
in U.S. automobiles. Nader appears at a senate
commerce subcommittee investigation into
allegations that be was intimidated and brasses
by General Motors for his viewpoints and writings.
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Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men to walk on
the moon during Apollo historic 1969 space
mission.
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Kenneth inverson(1925-2002, center) of Nucor
corporation attends a meeting of the
international industrial development conference.
Iverson Nucor became one of the few U.S. based
steel mills to effectively compete with imports.
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Business events that shaped the 1940s
  • 1960 United states begins trade embargo
    against Cuba
  • 1960 first laser created at Hughes research
    laboratory
  • 1061 FDA requires cosmetic makers to pass
    safety clearances
  • 1961 valium invented

date
event
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Business events that shaped the 1940s
  • 1961 food stamps program initiated to combat
    poverty and boost farm income
  • 1961 east Germany builds Berlin wall
  • 1962 trade expansion act reduces tariffs
  • 1962 Cesar Chaves forms united farm workers

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Business events that shaped the 1940s
  • 1963 clean air act passed
  • 1964 President Johnson outlines great society
  • 1964 anti-poverty bill passed
  • 1964 civil rights act passed
  • 1964 economic opportunity act provides
    job-relief programs

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Business events that shaped the 1940s
  • 1964 basic programming language invented
  • 1965 antipollution bill requires emission
    standards system,os/360
  • 1966 national traffic safety agency created
  • 1966 first handheld calculator introduced by
    Texas instrument
  • 1967 ATT introduces 800 toll-free number

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Business events that shaped the 1940s
  • 1968 unemployment hits 15-year low-3.3 percent
  • 1968 truth-in-lending act passed
  • 1968 oil discovered in Alaska's Prudhoe bay
  • 1968 U.S. automakers required to add safety
    equipment
  • 1969 DDT banned by department of agriculture

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Business events that shaped the 1940s
  • 1969 Neil Armstrong first man to walk on the
    moon
  • 1969 artificial heart invented
  • 1969 ATM invented

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1970- 1979
Managing through the Malaise
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social and demographic facts about 1930s
  • 203 million Americans' in 50 states grows to
    227 million by 1980
  • President Nixon resigns after Watergate
    scandal
  • United states celebrates bicentennial
  • Roe v. wade legalizes abortion
  • Woman admitted to military academies
  • Women surpass men in college enrollment in
    1979

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social and demographic facts about 1930s
  • Antiwar protests, Kent state killings
  • Environmentalists stage earth day
  • Highway speed reduced to 55 mph
  • games star war figures, Atari's pong video
    game
  • Minimum wage(1970)1.60 per hour
  • Average annual earnings(1970)7.564

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Nixon's scandals and subsequent resignation shook
the confident of the American peapol.
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President Carter signs the historic airline
deregulation bill, which created a host of new
competitors followed by massive industry
consolidation.
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