Records, 1917-1991 (bulk, 1950-1991).

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

International Business Machines Corporation

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International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in New York State on June 16, 1911 under the name Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. In 1922, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. purchased all of the shares of Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft. In 1924 the official name of the company was changed to International Business Machines Corporation. In 1933, IBM CEO Thomas Watson ordered the merger of IBM subsidiaries in Germany (Optima, Degemag, Holgemag, Dehomag) under the name De...

United States. Department of Justice

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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, and is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration, and administers several federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigat...

Boni, Watkins, Jason & Co.

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Morgan, Stanley & Co.

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Union Carbide Corporation

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DuPont Pension Fund Investment.

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Shapiro, Irving S. (Irving Saul), 1916-2001

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Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 15 July 1916. Died on 13 September 2001. Education: B.S., Pre-law, University of Minnesota (1939), L.L.B., University of Minnesota (1941). Employment: 1941 Private Practice; 1941-1943 U. S. Office of Price Administration; 1843-1951 U.S. Department of Justice; 1951-1981 E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Inc.; 1981-1990 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom. From the description of Oral history interview with Irving S. Shapiro, 1994 December 15. (...

PepsiCo, inc.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Executive Committee.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. External Affairs Dept.

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Associated Newpapers Group, Ltd.

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Celanese Corporation of America

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Hearst Books (Firm)

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Historical note The Los Angeles Examiner was founded in December 1903 by William Randolph Hearst. A morning paper, it printed its last issue on January 7, 1962. The paper closed at the same time as the Times-Mirror afternoon paper the Los Angeles Mirror . These closures left the Los Angeles Times as the only significant morning newspaper in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, another Hearst paper, as the only signifi...

Towers, Perin, Forster & Crosby.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Finance Dept.

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Christiana Securities Company

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The Christiana Securities Company was a private, closed-end investment company established by A. Felix, Pierre S., Irénée and Lammot du Pont and their associates. Its primary function was to retain control of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in that branch of the family through the ownership of a large block of stock. The Christiana Securities Company was incorporated on March 2, 1915, as the Du Pont Securities Company for the purpose of purchasing the shares of E...

Delaware Realty and Investment Company

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Atomic Energy Division.

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Hewitt Associates.

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Savannah River Plant (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company).

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Finance Committee.

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Conoco Inc.

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In the summer of 1981, a four-way bidding war erruptd over the control of Conoco Inc., the world's ninth largest oil company. In the spring, Conoco stockholders had responded favorably to an offer from Dome Petroleum Limited for its Canadian subsidiary, leading large investors to conclude that the company was ripe for a hostile takeover. Edward Jefferson, the new CEO of DuPont, wanted to acquire Conoco as a source of feedstocks to protect the company from oil shocks of t...

Connecticut General Life Insurance Company

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General motors corporation

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Treasurer's Dept.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Old Hickory Plant.

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Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc.

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Indiana Ordnance Works (U.S.).

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Mansfield Journal Company.

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Public Affairs Dept.

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Gannett Company

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Marketing Communications Dept.

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Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (ELAS) was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde (1834-1899). It became, by the year of Hyde’s death, the largest life insurance company in the world. Hyde sought to guarantee that his son, James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), would continue family control of the company after his death, but in 1905 the younger Hyde lost control in a struggle which resulted from an investigation of the insurance industry by New York State. From the g...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. DuPont Finance.

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In 1902, a century after its founding, Pierre S. du Pont joined with his cousins T. Coleman du Pont and Alfred I. du Pont to reconstitute the family explosives firm, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, as a modern dorporation that operated according to the principles of systematic management. Following the company's reorganization, Pierre was named Treasurer. In this capacity he was responsible for the formulation of the company's financial policies. A Treasurer's Department was ...

TRW Inc.

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Established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Co. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Co. (1908), the Steel Products Co. (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense cont...

Wyatt Company

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Du Pont Foreign Sales Corporation.

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Prudential Insurance Company of America

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News-Journal Company.

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