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Flying Food Group Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...attacks devastated the American air travel industry, and the air catering business along with it....
...helped to insulate it partially from the industry downturn, it nevertheless laid off hundreds of its...
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| 392 |
United Air Lines, (
Business Dictionary
) ...and the modern American commercial airline industry were born out of small private companies that...
...era, United and the whole commercial airline industry grew rapidly. Annual revenues, which came...
...the U.S. government deregulated the airline industry in 1978, United was the number one passenger...
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| 393 |
Housekeeping, Glenna Matthews(
Authored Entry
) ...in any other city, is dominated by a single industry of so offensive a character. ” The people who...
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| 394 |
Chicago Housing Authority, Harvey M. Choldin(
Authored Entry
) ...to create housing for the workers in war industries. Two large projects had some units for black...
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| 395 |
Fiction, Bill Savage(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago and its now-defunct meatpacking industry. The novel's exposé of unsanitary and dangerous...
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| 396 |
Jews, Irving Cutler(
Authored Entry
) ...and factory laborers, especially in the garment industry, where many men and women became ardent...
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| 397 |
Machine Politics, Roger Biles(
Authored Entry
) ...of contracts and jobs for the construction industry. i3822 A cartoon by John T. McCutcheon, in the...
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| 398 |
Philanthropy, Peter Frumkin(
Authored Entry
) ...Shedd Aquarium , the Museum of Science and Industry , and the Adler Planetarium . Following a larger...
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| 399 |
Shoreline Development, Gwen Hoerr Jordan(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...launched vigorous campaigns against growing industries to develop and maintain public access to the...
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| 400 |
Two Kinds of Factories, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...job than many others in the meatpacking industry. All but one of the workers in this photograph...
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| 401 |
Publishing, Book, Connie Goddard(
Authored Entry
) ...consolidation and technological changes in the book industry nationwide meant that the metropolitan...
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| 402 |
Water, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...the effort. The IWC argued that the growth of industry, combined with continued population growth,...
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| 403 |
Infrastructure, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...rather than coal increasingly powered industry. The telephone and gas utilities date from this same...
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| 404 |
Mailing To the World, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...the U.S. See also: Agricultural Machinery Industry ; Innovation, Invention, Chicago Business ;...
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| 405 |
Wrigley (Wm. Jr.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...$4.5 million in 1910, when “Spearmint” was the industry's leading brand. A new brand, “Double Mint,”...
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| 406 |
Allstate Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Allstate continued to be a U.S. insurance industry leader. With nearly $100 billion in assets,...
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| 407 |
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Sheet & Tube had become a subsidiary of Lykes Industries, it still had about 10,000 employees in the...
...end of the 1970s, just as the American steel industry entered a severe slump, Lykes was purchased by...
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| 408 |
Capsonic Group LLC, (
Business Dictionary
) ...to create parts for use in the electronics industry. In 1968 he started Capsonic Inc. and began...
...computer, appliance, and telecommunication industries, reaping over $40 million in sales a year. The...
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| 409 |
Indiana Dunes, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Gary--one of the qualities that the steel industry had found so desirable--also made the lakeshore...
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| 410 |
Columbian Exposition Gallery, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Museum and now of the Museum of Science and Industry. To the west, between 59th and 60th Streets,...
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