Author: Chamber of Commerce of Gary, IndianaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gary (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of Gary, Indiana
Author: Chamber of Commerce of Gary, IndianaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gary (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
With appendices.
City of the Century
Author: James B. LanePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253111876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The United States Steel Corporation founded Gary in 1906 as an experiment in industrial urban planning, and the inscription on the city's official seal accordingly proclaims it the "City of the Century." Gary proved to be no more immune to the woes of industrialization than any other American city, however. To some, in fact, it has come to epitomize all that is wrong with contemporary urban life. But as this book clearly shows, the people of Gary have refused to surrender their sense of hope, their dignity, and their pride to the prophesiers of doom. At once scholarly and colorful, "City of the Century" is an outgrowth of urban historian James B. Lane's popular weekly columns for the Gary Post-Tribune. Lane uses the oral testimony of the people of Gary to tell a fascinating story. There are episodes of personal tragedy and heroism here, of frustrated dreams and tarnished reputations, and of challenges met and obstacles overcome.
Community Leadership
Author: Annual Report - Interstate Commerce Commission
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
With appendices, which include also "Annual report on the statistics of railways..." and "Preliminary report on the income account of railways."
The Americanization of West Virginia
Author: John HennenPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813170107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Local teachers and ministers extolling the virtues of hard work and loyalty to God and country. Veterans' groups and women's clubs promoting the military fighting radicalism, and equating business and patriotism. Industrial leaders gaining legal as well as moral influence over national domestic policy. Such scenes might seem to be lifted from a Sinclair Lewis novel or a Contract with America publicity video. But as John C. Hennen shows in this piercing analysis of early-twentieth-century American political culture, from 1916 to 1925 "Americanization" became the theme—indeed, the script—not only of West Virginia but of the entire nation. Hennen's interdisciplinary work examines a formative period in West Virginia's modern history that has been largely neglected beyond the traditional focus on the coal industry. Hennen looks at education, reform, and industrial relations in the state in the context of war mobilization, postwar instability, and national economic expansion. The First World War, he says, consolidated the dominant positions of professionals, business people, and political capitalists as arbiters of national values. These leaders emerged from the war determined to make free-market business principles synonymous with patriotic citizenship. Americanization, therefore, refers less to the assimilation of immigrants into the national mainstream than to the attempt to encode values that would guarantee a literate, loyal, and obedient producing class. To ensure that the state fulfilled its designated role as a resource zone for the perceived greater good of national strength, corporate leaders employed public relations tactics that the Wilson administration had refined to gain public support for the war. Alarmed by widespread labor activism and threatened by fears of communism, the American Constitutional Association in West Virginia, one of dozens of similar organizations nationwide, articulated principles that identified the well-being of business with the well-being of the country. With easy access to teacher training and classroom programs, antiunion forces had by 1923 rolled back the wartime gains of the United Mine Workers of America. Middle-class voluntary organizations like the American Legion and the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs helped implant mandated loyalty in schoolchildren. Far from being isolated during America's transformation into a world power, West Virginia was squarely in the mainstream. The state's people and natural resources were manipulated into serving crucial functions as producers and fuel for the postwar economy. Hennen's study, therefore, is a study less of the power or force of ideas than of the importance of access to the means to transmit ideas. The winner of the1995 Appalachian Studies Award is a significant contribution to regional studies as well as to our understanding of American culture during and after World War I.
The Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce
Author: United States. Department of CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Town & County Edition of The American City
Author: New Serial Titles
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.