Target's Guest ID: Pregnancy Predictions, Canada's Collapse and Boycotts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Target traces back to George Dayton's company in Minnesota, founded in 1902, and the first Targe...
18 Okt 24min
Takata Airbags: Ammonium Nitrate, Falsified Tests and 100 Million Recalls
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Takeshi Takata founded his company in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, in 1933 making parachute textiles...
18 Okt 18min
Taipei 101: A 660-Ton Golden Damper, Bedrock Piles and Feng Shui
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Taipei 101 rose in a city on the Pacific Ring of Fire, about 200 meters from a major fault line ...
18 Okt 23min
Swatch and the Quartz Crisis: The Second Watch, System51 and MoonSwatch
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By the late 1970s, cheap and accurate quartz watches from Seiko and Citizen, whose crystals vibr...
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Subway's Fall: Doctors Associates, the $5 Footlong Revolt and Roark
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Subway began in 1965 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, when 17-year-old Fred DeLuca borrowed $1,000 fr...
18 Okt 21min
Subprime Mortgage Crisis: 2/28 ARMs, AAA CDOs and a $109B Bailout Profit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 2007 to 2010 subprime mortgage crisis grew from a housing boom built on cheap credit: the Fe...
18 Okt 24min
Stockton, California: Holt's Caterpillar Tread, Chapter 9 and a $500 UBI
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stockton, California, sits where the San Joaquin Valley meets the Sacramento-San Joaquin River D...
18 Okt 18min
Tom Monaghan and Domino's: A VW Beetle Trade and the 30-Minute Guarantee
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1960 Tom Monaghan and his brother Jim bought DomiNick's, a pizza shop near Eastern Michigan U...
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