Weyerhaeuser: James J. Hill's 900,000 Acres and the Dusky Gopher Frog Case
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1900 Frederick Weyerhaeuser, already a wealthy Mississippi River lumberman, moved west to Tac...
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Merck & Co.: Split From German Merck in 1917, Streptomycin and Vioxx
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Merck began in 1668 when Friedrich Jacob Merck bought the Angel Pharmacy in Darmstadt, Germany. ...
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Vodafone: Racal's Military Radios, the Mannesmann Takeover and M-Pesa
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Vodafone grew out of Racal Electronics, the UK's largest maker of military radios in 1980. Racal...
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Narita Airport: Sanrizuka Farmers, a Control Tower Raid and a Bent Taxiway
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By the early 1960s Tokyo's Haneda Airport was boxed in by dense neighborhoods and out of capacit...
21 Okt 23min
Verizon: Bell Atlantic's Comeback, NSA Phone Records and the Oath Flop
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When regulators broke up the AT&T Bell System in 1983, Bell Atlantic emerged as the Baby Bell fo...
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U.S. Steel: Convict Leasing, Marathon Oil and Nippon Steel's Golden Share
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1901 J.P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie's steel empire and combined it with Federal Steel...
21 Okt 26min
ZTE: A $1.19 Billion Iran Plea, the 2018 Export Ban and a Trump-Xi Rescue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!ZTE was founded in Shenzhen in 1985 as Zhongxing Semiconductor by investors tied to China's Mini...
21 Okt 21min
Travelocity: Easy Sabre, the Roaming Gnome and a $280M Sale to Expedia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Travelocity's roots run back to 1978, when American Airlines opened its Sabre reservation mainfr...
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