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Mick Jackson • The Underground Man
With approval from a dozen different bureaus required for each contract, contracts from other districts might be stalled for months. Johnson would show up at each bureau—and contracts from the Fourteenth District were approved and back in the mail within days. In a White House ceremony on July 28, 1933, President Roosevelt presented the first AAA c
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R. J. Reynolds, like the other conglomerates that had invested in ship lines, was learning that container shipping was not the gold mine it had imagined.27 In desperation, the leading carriers on important routes tried an old-fashioned solution: reducing competition. Five competitors in the Europe–Far East trade, two British, two Japanese, and the
... See moreMarc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
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