Hist 1302 Assignment 4 Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, on his family’s farm near Dearborn, Michigan. When Henry was 15, his father had given him a pocket watch, which he took apart right away and reassembled. Friends and neighbors were impressed and requested that he fix their timepieces too. Not satisfied with farm work, Henry Ford left home the next year, at age 16, to take an apprenticeship as a machinist in Detroit. In the years that followed, he would learn to skillfully operate and service steam engines, and would also study bookkeeping.
1. Harary, Rabie, and Varadi formed key decisions throughout the establishment of their company, Spin Master. The method of releasing their first product “Earth Buddy” was their first decision. Rabbie devised the decision to introduce their first product in Root stores; Roots Canada Ltd allowed the trio to test-market Earth Buddies throughout their stores. Earth Buddies turned out to be a success, and soon after 500,000 orders were made from K-Mart in the United States.
Week 1 On the first Friday after the contract was signed, Dan delivered ten black lab puppies with AKC papers. Bob accepted delivery, inspected the dogs, and put them on sale. Since Bob was paying $400.00 for each puppy, he had to sell them for $1000.00. Bob only sold four puppies that first week. Bob, pet storeowner specializing in black Labrador retrievers, contractual duties: * Purchase 100 black Labrador retriever male puppies * Payment was due 30 days after delivery; and * Each puppy costs $400.00.
Armand Bombardier (inventor of the snowmobile) Joseph-Armand Bombardier was born in 1907. Armand was into mechanics at an early age when he made small locomotives, toy tractors and boats. At 17, Armand became an apprentice mechanic before heading to Montreal to study electrical and mechanical engineering. In 1929, he married Yvonne and soon after he lost his son to peritonitis because the family failed to get means to the hospital in time. That challenged him to find a mean of transport in snow winter.
He went from rags to riches, gaining a fortune of £500 ,000, equivalent to $25 million today. On August 3, 1792 Richard Arkwright died and was buried at Cromford, near his original mill. Thomas Edison Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, a community that was the largest wheat shipping center in the world. He was born into the middle class, the seventh and last child of Samuel and Nancy Edison. As most boys did back then, Edison started working at an early age; he was a newsboy selling newspaper.
In 1918 the same year that Chevrolet became part of General motors they released the first truck. The truck was based on the Model 490 car frame. Six years later Chevrolet opened another plant in Copenhagen, Denmark; it was the first plant outside the U.S. and helps put Chevy on top of Ford selling over one million car and tucks. Back in the United States during the spring of 1929 the Chevrolet Six was released called “a six for the price of a four.” It was called that because the other companies offered a four-cylinder engine for the same price. In 1934 Chevy started to innovate even more introducing independent suspension on the 1935 model master series.
Born in Loudun, France, Marie married her first cousin, Auguste Antigny, in 1920. The marriage lasted until his death from supposed pleurisy on July 21, 1927. When his body was eventually exhumed, 60 mg of arsenic was found in his remains. In 1928, Marie married her second husband Léon Besnard.When Léon Besnard's parents inherited family wealth, the couple invited them to move in with them. Soon thereafter, his father died, apparently from eating poisoned mushrooms.
John Phillips (partner at McClur’s) convinced Ida to write an outline to show to McClure. McClure accepted the Ida’s idea. After many years of researching, Ida Tarbell had a detailed analysis of Standard Oil’s monopolies; which appeared in McClure's Magazine, beginning in November of 1902. Later to be published as a two-volume book in 1904. To Ida’s dismay, she was labeled a "muckraker" by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Camilla Dons Dons 1 Theodor Geisel Trying and not succeeding is not failure; it is part of the process of discovering what works. Theodor Geisel, born on March 2, 1903, was born and raised in Massachusetts. He had a sister named Marnie who, just like Geisel, was made fun of for their parents participation in the pro-American campaign of WW1 (“Dr.”). Their father and grandfather were brewmasters and had a large financial success. Their father’s family were also German-immigrants (“Dr.”).
Mary Pickford: America’s Sweetheart By: Kristen Knipfing May 14th, 1929 Gladys Marie Smith was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto. On February 11, 1898 John Smith died of a cerebral hemorrhage after being injured in an accident on the job, to make some extra money Gladys and her sister Charlotte, Lottie for short, begin to do shows. “Tired of life on the road, Pickford, still known as Gladys Smith, auditions for David Belasco on Broadway. The producer changes her name to Mary Pickford and gives her a salary of $25 a week,” (PBS.org). “At the suggestion of theatrical producer David Belasco, Gladys Smith becomes ‘Mary Pickford.’ The new moniker is inspired by her middle name, Marie, and her maternal grandfather’s name, John Pickford Hennessey,” (marypickford.org).