Author: Hong Y. ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bay County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Economic Impact of Saginaw's Manufacturing Industry
Author: Hong Y. ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bay County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Michigan Manufacturer and Financial Record
Author: Michigan Manufacturer & Financial Record
Author: Briefing on Economic Impact of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan and National Poll on Voters' Views of Native Americans and Related Issues
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Briefing on Economic Impact of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan and National Polling Results on Voters' Views of Native Americans and Related Issues
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War
Author: Alexander J. FieldPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300268572
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long‑term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity actually declined, depressed by changes in the output mix and resource shocks from enemy action, including curtailed access to natural rubber and, on the Eastern Seaboard, petroleum. The war forced a shift away from producing goods in which the country had a great deal of experience toward those in which it had little. Learning by doing was only a partial counterbalance to the intermittent idleness and input hoarding that characterized a shortage economy and dragged down productivity. The conflict distorted human and physical capital accumulation and once it ended, America stopped producing most of the new goods. The war temporarily shut down basic scientific research and the ongoing development of civilian goods. U.S. world economic dominance in 1948, Field shows, was due less to the experience of making war goods and more to the country’s productive potential in 1941.
Beadle Bay Development, Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron, Michigan
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Detroit DistrictPublisher:
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Economic Report of the President
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Manufacturers Record
Author: Flagler
Author: Edward N. AkinPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813065690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
From reviews of the first edition: "A succinct and informed account of [Flagler's] leadership in transforming Florida's economy."--American Historical Review "An important contribution to the understanding of Standard Oil's extended partnership and how the personal desire of Flagler led to the early development of Florida's Atlantic Coast."--The Historian Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails. As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in his career that cheap freight rates determined industrial profits. Portraying Flagler as an aggressive entrepreneur, Akin documents his shrewd negotiations to obtain reduced rates, rebates, and drawbacks from the railroads, thus assuring Standard Oil's national domination over oil transportation costs. Flagler drove himself as hard as he drove a bargain, obsessed with the desire to create a monument to himself that he called "my domain." His legacy was no less than modern Florida. In 1885, at the age of fifty-five, he turned his attention away from Standard Oil and began construction of the Ponce de León luxury hotel in St. Augustine, the city where he had honeymooned with his second wife. Realizing he could never fill its rooms unless better transportation with the North was available, he embarked on the second railroad venture of his lifetime, creation of the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler's resort empire eventually included The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Royal Palm in Miami; his Atlantic coast railroad extended all the way to Key West, an engineering achievement that was called the "eighth wonder of the world." By the beginning of the twentieth century, Flagler dominated not just the resort and railroad industries in Florida but steamship and agricultural operations, too. Florida politicians gave his projects preferential treatment, even changing the state's divorce law so he could marry for a third time. Woven into this biography are details about Flagler's family, personality, three marriages, alienation from his only son, and devotion to the Presbyterian church--copy that fueled society gossip columns from New York to Palm Beach for decades. Edward N. Akin, author of Mississippi: An Illustrated History and other works on southern history, taught at Mississippi College in Clinton. His biography of Henry Flagler won the 1985 Phi Alpha Theta manuscript prize.