[General Motors Corporation : historical materials]. Folder 87-4.19-1b.

La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia; December 11, 1882 – September 20, 1947) was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the House of Representatives and served as the 99th Mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945. Known for his irascible, energetic, and charismatic personality and diminutive stature, La Guardia is acclaimed as one of the greatest mayors in American history. Though a Republican, La Guardia was frequently cross-endorsed by other part...

United States. Army Air Forces

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The Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course was established in 1944 at several locations in the U.S., one of which was Harvard Business School. The HBS program involved eight weeks of training in the business of contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal necessitated by changes in Army Air Forces tactical requirements. Approximately 4,200 officers received instruction throughout the country, about one sixth of them at HBS. The goal of the program was to train men for participation in t...

Beardslee, L. R.

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Standard Oil Company of New Jersey

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Directed by Roy Stryker and his successors (1943 - 1963), the project depicts the operations of the oil industry throughout the world and its effect on life in the twentieth century. From the description of Picture Library, 1943-1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191916439 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was an oil company and holding company during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was originally formed in 1882 as a refining and...

Farish, W. S. (William Stamps)

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Veal, C. B.

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Nash, L. R.

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Ethyl Corporation

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Tredegar Iron Works, founded in 1836, produced high-quality iron products (weapons, artillery pieces, cannons, cannonballs, and shot, iron plate) during the Civil War. After the war, the company manufactured iron products for railroads and for agricultural uses. From the description of A place in history; the Tredegar Iron Works, 1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122608773 The Ethyl Corporation, chartered in Delaware in 1924, originated from the research effo...

Storrs, Amanda

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Steele, W. B

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Atlantic Refining Company

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Lowenstein, Leon

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Wolfe, Alan L.

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War Congress of American Industry

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Dreystadt, Nick

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Russell, R. P.

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General Motors Corporation. Buick Motor Division

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Barrett, Carlton R.

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Tide Water Associated Oil Company

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Society of Automotive Engineers

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Book-Cadillac Hotel (Detroit, Mich.)

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Detroit, Michigan hotel, built 1924. From the description of Book-Cadillac Hotel menu collection, 1935-1941. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 82181009 ...

Van Bouchaute, Peter

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Klein, Murray S.

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Howard, Frank A. (Frank Atherton), 1890-

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Epithet: artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x000216 ...

Chemical Bank and Trust Company (New York, N.Y.)

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Randall, Harry.

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Aluminum Company of America

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Alcoa sponsored various television venues in the 1950's and early 1960's including, The Alcoa hour, Alcoa premiere, Aloca presents, and Alcoa theater. From the description of Collection of television scripts sponsored by Alcoa, 1959-1963. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40161076 The Aluminum Company of America was founded in Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1888 by a group of entrepreneurs, including Capt. Alfred E. Hunt, Charles Martin Hall, Arthur Vining Dav...

Hunt, O. E.

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Bochetto, Joseph F.

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Wirkus, S. H.

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Bell Aircraft Corporation

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"Founded in 1935 as Bell Aircraft Corporation, Bell continues to set the pace for the industry and expand the scope of vertical lift. Now an industry leader with unmatched name recognition, Bell Helicopter was the first to obtain certification for a commercial helicopter. Over its rich history, Bell has delivered more than 35,000 aircraft to our customers around the world." -- "About Bell Helicopter." Bell Helicopter. http://www.bellhelicopter.com/en/company/ (Retrieved December 11,...

Shell Oil Company

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Boyd, William R. (William Rufus), 1885-1959

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Stricker, Adam K. (Adam Kramer)

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Wilson, Charles Erwin, 1890-1961

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Chrysler corporation

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On Jan. 4, 1980, the Chrysler Corp. permanently closed its Hamtramck Assembly Plant, commonly called "Dodge Main", marking the end of nearly 70 years of continuous manufacturing operations at the facility. John Frances and Horace Elgin Dodge were pioneers in the automobile industry, beginning with a machine shop to supply auto plants with parts, working with both Ransom E. Olds and Henry Ford, and eventually building a new plant on a 30 acre site in Hamtramck in 1910. Wanting to build their own ...

United States. National Bureau of Standards.

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After World War II the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was charged with the task of following developments in computing. In response, NBS began to index and abstract books, journals, reports and other literature covering a broad range of computer-related topics beginning in the mid-1940s. Eventually the enormity of the task forced NBS to abandon this work in 1978. From the description of Computer Literature Collection, 1956-1978. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat re...

O'Brien, G. G.

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Storrs, Frank Vance, Mrs

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Sinclair Refining Company

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Kopke, Emily

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Pure Oil Company

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Coordinating Research Council. Coordinating Fuel and Equipment Research Committee

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Grant, Richard Hallam

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National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)

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The National Association of Manufacturers (N.A.M.) was organized in January 1895 as a political lobbying organization representing the interests of America's manufacturers who wanted to maintain a high protective tariff. By the beginning of the twentieth century, N.A.M. sought to curtail the power of organized labor and maintain the open shop. During the New Deal period and World War II, N.A.M. became a significant force in the Republican coalition seeking to decrease the growing role of the sta...

Lockheed Aircraft Corporation

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Sweeney, Tom

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American Petroleum Institute.

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Erban, Richard T.

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Randall & Freeman Attorneys at Law

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Phillips petroleum company

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In 1979, the Phillips Petroleum Company released a nine-part series on science called, "The Search for Solutions." It included Adaptation, Contect, Evidence, Investigation, Modeling, Patterns, Prediction, Theory, Trial and Error, as series topics. The series was accompanied by a book of the same title, written by Horace Freeland Judson. From the description of "The search for solutions" film records, 1979-1985. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 47245037 In 1976, P...

Kings County Buick, Inc. (Brooklyn, New York)

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Curtiss-Wright Corporation

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On June 26, 1929, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company merged with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation to form the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. After this merger, the former Wright organization took over all of the engine and propeller manufacturing, while Curtiss concentrated on airplanes. This merger was completed by organizing two major divisions under their original names, but under the direction of a corporate headquarters located in New York City. However, the election of fo...

Brokaw, Clifford V.

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Horton, L. D.

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United States. Army. Air Corps

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Undeutsch, George W.

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Wilson, C. E.

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Andersen, W. F.

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Murphree, E. V.

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McCormick, R. M.

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Smith, John Thomas, 1879-1947

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Davis, Arthur Vining, 1867-1962

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Kilpatrick, Harry

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I. J. Demarest Motors

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Barnes, F. L.

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Statler Hotel (Detroit, Mich.)

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General Motors of Canada

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Elterman, A. S.

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Noyes Buick Company

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Universal Oil Products Company

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Universal Oil Products Company (UOP) played a major role in the development of the petroleum industry. UOP was established in 1915, having been instituted in 1914 by Jesse A. Dubbs, inventor and J. Ogden Armour, financier, as the National Hydrocarbon Company. C.P. Dubbs, son of the founder, headed research and development of technologies for the oil refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries, centered in Independence, Kansas. In 1919 Universal Oil Products introduced Dubb's very succ...

Socony Mobil oil company

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Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954

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P. S. du Pont was president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1915 to 1919 and chairman of the board from 1919 to 1940. He was also president of General Motors (1920-1923) and chairman (1920-1929), as well as a member of many other major corporate boards. He was also an avid collector of documents on the early history of the Du Pont family and company. From the description of The P. S. du Pont Office Collection, 1749-1939. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 16...

Standard Oil Development Company

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Kettering, Charles Franklin, 1876-1958

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Inventor, scientist, and humanitarian, best known for his invention of the automobile self-starter and his co-founding of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; founder of DELCO; official of General Motors; b. near Loudonville, Ohio; resident of Dayton, Ohio. From the description of Charles Kettering collection, ca. 1930-ca. 1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70958264 Charles F. Kettering was born August 28, 1876 in Loudonville, Ohio to Jacob and Martha K...

General Motors Proving Ground

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General motors corporation

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Jacob Ruppert Brewery (New York, N. Y.)

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Kroeger, F. C. (Frederick C.), 1888-1944

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Union Oil Company of California

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General Motors Corporation. Allison Division

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Walker, W. J.

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McCuen, C. L.

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Gulf Research & Development Co.

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Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966

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Standard Oil Company of California

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On March 27, 1964, at approximately 5:36 p.m. Alaska Standard Time, the "Good Friday" Earthquake (also known as the Great Alaska Earthquake) shook all of Southcentral Alaska. The quake's epicenter was 80 miles east of Anchorage in Prince William Sound. The quake's magnitude was originally recorded between 8.4 and 8.6 on the Richter scale, but later upgraded to 9.2. The earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America. It was the second largest earthquake ever recorded, ...