He built hotels, and then bought railroads to connect them to other hotels, improving and even founding cities as he moved down the east coast to Miami. When others would have stopped, he saw the possibilities of continuing to Key West and accepted the challenge. By connecting an isolated string of islands to the rest of the world, Henry Morrison Flagler made his dream and The Keys come true. Born in Hopewell, New York in 1830, he left school at age 14 and moved to Ohio to work (and live) with his half-brother at a general store. Being a natural salesman, he quickly advanced from his original salary of $5 a month, and by age 22, he was partners with his half-brother in a grain business and distillery (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004).
CRAFT MARINE CORPORATION 1. How would you characterize the U.S. boating industry? Industry dollar sales 1999---- $22.2 billion 2000----$25.5 billion 2001----$25.6 billion (Attributed to 13% increase in the price of new boat) Heavily dependent on general economic conditions (should consider about the influence of 911), reflect personal discretionary income patterns in the US. Over 100 full-line boat manufactures No one manufacture holds over 10% industry market share Many manufactures are privately owned or are part of larger companies that sell a variety of products Industry sales occur between March and August with April, May, and June being the peak buying months. 2.
The listed price was 300 kilograms of solid gold; however, since Captain Jack Sparrow Inc. is anxious to sell its used ships, and since Davey Jones is a very persuasive negotiator, the parties agree to a selling price of 175 kilograms of solid gold. A week later, after the hurricane season had ended, Davey Jones put the ship in the water to see how it sailed. After sailing for ten kilometres, the ship begins to take in excessive amounts of water. As the ship begins to sink, Davey Jones’ crew aboard the Flying Dutchmen arrive just in time to tow Davey Jones and his newly purchased ship ashore and they dock it at Captain Jack Sparrow Inc.’s docking port. What are Davey Jones’ rights under the common law?
Dexter then finished schooling, and then he had borrowed 1,000 dollars from his degree to buy assistance in laundry. When Dexter had turned twenty seven years old, he had already owned the greatest laundries for the upper Midwest. He then sold his business and had moved to New York. Then once he had turned twenty three, he was announced a pass for the weekend for Sherry Island Golf Club. Mr Hart, who was the one to announce this also had Dexter as his caddying at one time.
Smaller gins could be cranked by hand; larger ones could be powered by a horse and, later, by a steam engine. Whitney's hand-cranked machine could remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton in a single day. (Bellis.M) • Revolutionary Cotton Gin This machine boosted the cotton production to many folds by reducing the amount of labor needed to seperate cotton from seeds. (Bellis.M) • Annual production of cotton in south increased dramatically from 2 million pounds in 1795 to nearly a billion pounds in 1860. (Bellis.M) • It became a hit making many farmers and other industrialists millionaire.
• George Washington operated a lottery to finance construction of the Mountain Road, which opened westward expansion from Virginia. • Thomas Jefferson, $80,000 in debt at the end of his life, used a lottery to dispose of the bulk of his property. During the 1700’s, lotteries flourished with the revenues used for a broad range of personal and public financing including the colonial army in the Thirteen Colonies as a means to fight the war with Britain and further including the financing of fifty colleges, 300 schools and 200 churches including universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia. In 1726, the Netherlands formed a lottery that is still in operation today. An early record of Canadian lotteries was noted in 1856 but
In “Dame Shirley’s” third letter she writes about how Rich Bar came to be. She tells the story of how the rumor of gold sent a company of 100 on a 45 mile journey. Only carrying with them, “a pair of blankets, a frying pan, some flour, salt pork, brandy, pick axe, and a shovel” (p. 26) in search of gold. It only took a few days for Rich Bar to be “claimed” and “five hundred men had settled upon the bar for the summer” (p. 26). I think that this story is a good example of how people would easily uproot their lives in their search for riches.
Harald came from a lower-middle-class mercantile family. His own father kept a general store in a small town near Oslo. He had three daughters and two sons, both of whom emmigrated and flourished. Harald had lost his left forearm in a boyhood accident, but didn´t allow the disability to prevent him from making a similarly successful career. By 1905, at the age of forty, he had built a comfortable home for his first wife, Marie, and their two-year-old daughter, Ellen, in Llandaff.
Thinking that the economy was at its best, they expected everything to go smoothly, but in a short time everything collapsed forcing Abraham to sell his share. His partner, William Berry, died soon after and forced Lincoln to declare bankruptcy leaving him with a $ 1,000 that took seventeen years to pay off. That same year he began a political career with a campaign for the Illinois General Assembly. He became increasingly popular and had the ability to draw crowds as good as any natural raconteur in New Salem though he lacked an education, money, and powerful friends. Before Abrahams first election, he served briefly as a captain in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War, and although he never saw combat, he decided to return from the militia where he was able to campaign for the August 6 election.
A tax on paper made it fairly expensive to print newspapers (Isaacs, 14). His writings got into the newspaper for many years anonymously when he was young. When Benjamin Franklin’s brother James was confined, Franklin was chosen as the right choice to take over the newspaper (Saari, 278). He is known as the first tabloid printer. His “Pennsylvania Gazette” made him skilled and wealthy, which allowed him to retire from printing at a fairly young age (Logan, 7).