Chronology of Twentieth-Century History: Business and Commerce Volume II

Chapter 1 The European Common Market is Established; Chapter 2 Ford Introduces the Edsel; Chapter 3 The AFL-CIO Expels the Teamsters Union; Chapter 4 Congress Sets Standards for Chemical Additives in Food; Chapter 5 The Hula Hoop is Marketed; Chapter 6 Congress Gives Tax Breaks to Financiers of Small Businesses; Chapter 7 The Boeing 707 Begins Commercial Service; Chapter 8 Cuba Begins Expropriating Foreign Property; Chapter 9 The Landrum-Griffin Act Targets Union Corruption; Chapter 10 Firms Begin Replacing Skilled Laborers with Automatic Tools; Chapter 11 New Rice and Wheat Strains Launch the Green Revolution; Chapter 12 The U.S. Service Economy Emerges; Chapter 13 Berry Gordy, Jr., Founds Motown Records; Chapter 14 Radio’s Payola Scandal Leads to Congressional Action; Chapter 15 Opec Meets For the First Time; Chapter 16 The Negotiable Certificate of Deposit is Introduced; Chapter 17 The Supreme Court Orders Du Pont to Disburse Gm Holdings; Chapter 18 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Forms; Chapter 19 The Agency For International Development is Established; Chapter 20 Thalidomide Use Prompts Passage of the Kefauver-Harris Amendment; Chapter 21 Congress Passes The Equal Pay Act; Chapter 22 Studebaker Announces Plans to Abandon U.S. Auto Production; Chapter 23 GPU Announces Plans For A Commercial Nuclear Reactor; Chapter 24 Sara Lee Opens An Automated Factory; Chapter 25 Frei “Chileanizes” Chile’s Copper Industry; Chapter 26 Hoffa Negotiates a National Trucking Agreement; Chapter 27 The Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cuts Stimulate The U.S. Economy; Chapter 28 Ford Introduces The Mustang; Chapter 29 The Civil Rights Act Prohibits Discrimination in Employment; Chapter 30 The United States Enacts the Interest Equalization Tax; Chapter 31 American and Mexican Companies form Maquiladoras; Chapter 32 Johnson Signs the Medicare and Medicaid Amendments; Chapter 33 Congress Limits the Use of Billboards; Chapter 34 The United States Announces Plans for Immigration Reform; Chapter 35 Congress Passes the Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act; Chapter 36 Nader’s Unsafe at any Speed Launches a Consumer Movement; Chapter 37 The Asian Development Bank is Chartered; Chapter 38 China Begins the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 39 Cuba Signs a Commercial Agreement with the Soviet Union; Chapter 40 Fiat Plans to Build a Factory in the Soviet Union; Chapter 41 The NFL-AFL Merger Creates a Sports-Industry Giant; Chapter 42 A European Consortium Plans the Airbus; Chapter 43 The Supreme Court Rules Against a Procter & Gamble Merger; Chapter 44 McDonnell aircraft and douglas Aircraft Merge; Chapter 45 The Eec Adopts A Common Agricultural Policy; Chapter 46 At&T Is Ordered To Reduce Charges; Chapter 47 Atlantic Richfield Discovers Oil At Prudhoe Bay, Alaska; Chapter 48 Supertankers Begin Transporting Oil; Chapter 49 Johnson Restricts Direct Foreign Investment; Chapter 50 British Leyland Motor Corporation forms by merger; Chapter 51 French Workers Engage In A National Strike; Chapter 52 Congress Passes The Consumer Credit Protection Act; Chapter 53 The Supreme Court Upholds A Ban On Housing Discrimination; Chapter 54 The Wholesome Poultry Products Act Is Passed; Chapter 55 An Offshore Oil Well Blows Out Near Santabarbara, California; Chapter 56 The Saturday Evening Post Publishes Its Final Issue; Chapter 57 Congress Begins Hearings On Cost Overruns For The C-5A Galaxy; Chapter 58 The United States Bans Cyclamates From Consumer Markets; Chapter 59 The Banning Of Ddt Signals New Environmental Awareness; Chapter 60 Denim Jeans Become Accepted as Fashion; Chapter 61 Drive-Through Services Proliferate; Chapter 62 The Federal Trade Commission Endorses Comparative Advertising; Chapter 63 Health Consciousness Creates Huge New Markets; Chapter 64 Retailers Begin Using High Technology to Control Shrinkage; Chapter 65 The U.S. Government Reforms Child Product Safety Lwas; Chapter 66 Amtrak Takes Over Most U.S. Intercity Train Traffic; Chapter 67 Curt Flood Tests Baseball’s Reserve Clause; Chapter 68 The U.S. Government Bans Cigarette Ads on Broadcast Media; Chapter 69 Congress Passes the Rico Act; Chapter 70 Congress Passes the Fair Credit Reporting Act; Chapter 71 The Environmental Protection Agency is Created; Chapter 72 Nixon Signs the Occupational Safety and Health Act; Chapter 73 New York State Allows Off-Track Betting; Chapter 74 Nixon Removes An Embargo on Trade With China; Chapter 75 The United States Suffers its First Trade Deficit Since 1888; Chapter 76 Nixon’s Anti-Inflation Program Shocks Worldwide Markets; Chapter 77 The Supreme Court Orders the End of Discrimination in Hiring; Chapter 78 The U.S. Advertising Industry Organizes Self-Regulation; Chapter 79 An Independent Agency Takes Over U.S. Postal Service; Chapter 80 Professional Baseball Players go on Strike; Chapter 81 The Pocket Calculator is Marketed; Chapter 82 Nixon Signs the Consumer Product Safety act; Chapter 83 Itt Actions Cause Suspicion of Involvement in a Chilean Coup; Chapter 84 Iran Announces Nationalization of Foreign Oil Interests; Chapter 85 Federal Express Begins Operations; Chapter 86 Arab Oil Producers Curtail Oil Shipments to Industrial States; Chapter 87 West Germany Bans Immigration of Workers From Outside the EEC; Chapter 88 The United States Plans to Cut Dependence on Foreign Oil; Chapter 89 The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 is Passed; Chapter 90 Congress Creates the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Chapter 91 Sony Introduces the Betamax; Chapter 92 Fred Silverman Rescues Abc Television’s Ratings; Chapter 93 Congress Passes the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act; Chapter 94 The Economic Community of West African States Forms; Chapter 95 Congress Prohibits Discrimination In The Granting Of Credit; Chapter 96 Atlantic City Legalizes Casino Gambling; Chapter 97 The Concorde Flies Passengers At Supersonic Speeds; Chapter 98 Jobs And Wozniak Found Apple Computer; Chapter 99 Genentechis Founded; Chapter 100 Price Club Introduces The Warehouse Club Concept; Chapter 101 The 1976 Copyright Act Reflects Technological Change; Chapter 102 Sears Agrees to an Ftc Order Banning Bait-And-Switch Tactics; Chapter 103 Murdoch Extends His Media Empire to the United States; Chapter 104 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Pioneers the Leveraged Buyout; Chapter 105 At&T and Gte Install Fiber-Optic Telephone Systems; Chapter 106 The Alaskan Oil Pipeline Opens; Chapter 107 The Ftc Conducts Hearings on Ads Aimed at Children; Chapter 108 Volkswagen Opens the First Foreign-Owned U.S. Auto Plant; Chapter 109 Trigger Prices Protect the U.S. Steel Industry; Chapter 110 Carter Signs the Airline Deregulation Act; Chapter 111 The Pregnancy Discrimination Act Extends Employment Rights; Chapter 112 Visicalc Spreadsheet Software is Marketed; Chapter 113 The Three Mile Island Accident Prompts Reforms in Nuclear Power; Chapter 114 Carter Orders Deregulation of Oil Prices; Chapter 115 The Supreme Court Rules on Affirmative Action Programs; Chapter 116 Sony Introduces the Walkman; Chapter 117 American Firms Adopt Japanese Manufacturing Techniques; Chapter 118 Cad/Cam Revolutionizes Engineering and Manufacturing; Chapter 119 Defense Cutbacks Devastate the U.S. Aerospace Industry; Chapter 120 Electronic Technology Creates the Possibility of Telecommuting; Chapter 121 U.S. Regional Branch Banking is Approved; Chapter 122 Video Rental Outlets Gain Popularity; Chapter 123 Japan Becomes The World’S Largest Automobile Producer; Chapter 124 Congress Deregulates Banks and Savings and Loans; Chapter 125 The Loan Guarantee Act Saves Chrysler; Chapter 126 The Cable News Network Debuts; Chapter 127 The Supreme Court Rules On Water Rights; Chapter 128 The Supreme Court Rules That Life Forms Can Be Patented; Chapter 129 Reagan Promotes Supply-Side Economics; Chapter 130 Federal Regulators Authorize Adjustable-Rate Mortgages; Chapter 131 French Voters Elect Mitterrand; Chapter 132 The World Health Organization Condemns Use Of Infant Formula; Chapter 133 Air Traffic Controllers of Patco Declare a Strike; Chapter 134 IBM Introduces Its Personal Computer; Chapter 135 Tom Peters Gains Prominence as a Writer on Management; Chapter 136 AT&T Agrees to be Broken Upas Part of an Antitrust Settlement; Chapter 137 Braniff International Suspends Flight Operations; Chapter 138 Great Britain Announces Plans to Privatize British Telecom; Chapter 139 Seven People Die After Taking Cyanide-Laced Tylenol; Chapter 140 Usa Today is Launched; Chapter 141 Compact Discs Reach the Market; Chapter 142 Employees buy Weirton Steel Works; Chapter 143 The Payment-in-Kind Program Pays U.S. Farmers not to Plant; Chapter 144 Continental Airlines Declares Bankruptcy; Chapter 145 The U.S. Government Bails out Continental Illinois Bank; Chapter 146 Pennzoil Sues Texaco for Interfering in Getty Oil Deal; Chapter 147 Firefighters V. Stotts Upholds Seniority Systems; Chapter 148 Great Britain and China Agree on Control of Hong Kong; Chapter 149 Toxic Gas Leaks from a Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal, India; Chapter 150 Yugo Begins Selling Cars in the United States; Chapter 151 Coca-Cola Introduces a New Formula; Chapter 152 Home Shopping Service is Offered on Cable Television; Chapter 153 The Supreme Court Upholds Quotas as a Remedy for Discrimination; Chapter 154 Insider Trading Scandals Mar the Emerging Junk Bond Market; Chapter 155 The Fox Television Network goes on the Air; Chapter 156 The Immigration Reform and Control Act is Signed into Law; Chapter 157 The Boston Celtics Sell Shares in the Team; Chapter 158 Vons Opens its First Tianguis Marketplace; Chapter 159 The U.S. Government Institutes the Baldrige Award; Chapter 160 The U.S. Stock Market Crashes on 1987’s “Black Monday”; Chapter 161 Drexel and Michael Milken are Charged with Insider Trading; Chapter 162 The Recruit Scandal Surfaces in Japan; Chapter 163 Patent Protection is Granted on Genetically Engineered Mice; Chapter 164 R. J. Reynolds Introduces Premier, A Smokeless Cigarette; Chapter 165 Mexico Renegotiates Debt to U.S. Banks; Chapter 166 The United States Bans Chilean Fruit after Cyanide Scare; Chapter 167 Bush Responds to the Savings and Loan Crisis; Chapter 168 Sony Purchases Columbia Pictures; Chapter 169 Jim Barker is Sentenced for Fraud and Conspiracy; Chapter 170 Ford Buys Jaguar; Chapter 171 Avon Begins Operations in China; Chapter 172 Poland Begins Switching to a Market Economy; Chapter 173 The Soviet Parliament Allows Private Ownership; Chapter 174 Bush Signs the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; Chapter 175 Bush Signs the Clean Air Act of 1990; Chapter 176 U.S. Courts Restrict Rights to Photocopy Anthologies; Chapter 177 Elimination of Secret Swiss Bank Accounts Ends a Myth; Chapter 178 The European Market Unifies; Chapter 179 Euro Disneyland Opens; Chapter 180 World Leaders Confer on the Environment and Development; Chapter 181 Bell Atlantic and TCI Announce Merger Plans; Chapter 182 The North American Free Trade Agreement goes into Effect; Chapter 183 The Collapse of Barings; Chapter 184 U.S./Japanese Trade Relations: An Obligatory Alliance; Chapter 185 International Business Machines (IBM) Embraces Reengineering;

Biography

Frank N. Magill