Reminiscences of Raymond G. Taylor
Author | : Raymond G. Taylor |
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Author | : Raymond G. Taylor |
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Release | : 1956* |
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Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 1676 |
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Genre | : Medicine |
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Author | : National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 1000 |
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Genre | : Medicine |
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Author | : Mark S. Foster |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2014-08-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0292736452 |
“His standing as a lesser-known in a business pantheon that would include such names as Ford and Carnegie makes this work of some scholarly importance.” —Library Journal In the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose from lower-middle-class origins to become an enormously wealthy entrepreneur, building roads, bridges, dams, and housing. He established giant businesses in cement, aluminum, chemicals, steel, health care, and tourism. During World War II, his companies built cargo planes and Liberty ships. After the war, he manufactured the Kaiser-Frazer automobile. Along the way, he also became a major force in the development of the western United States, including Hawaii. Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West is the first biography of this remarkable man. Drawing on a wealth of archival material never before utilized, Mark Foster covers Kaiser’s entire life (1882–1967), painting an evenhanded portrait of a man of driving ambition and integrity, demonstrating Kaiser as the prototypical “frontier” entrepreneur who often used government and union support to tame the “wilderness.” Today the Kaiser legacy remains great. Kaiser played a major role in building the Hoover, Bonneville, Grand Coulee, and Shasta dams. The Kaiser-Permanente Medical Care Program still provides comprehensive health care for millions of subscribers. Kaiser-planned communities remain in Los Angeles; San Francisco; Portland, Oregon; and Boulder City, Nevada. Kaiser Engineers was actively engaged in hundreds of huge construction jobs across the nation and around the world. US and business historians, scholars of the modern West, and general readers will find much to absorb in this well-written biography.
Author | : Joseph Edward Libby |
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Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Aerospace industries |
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Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : United States |
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Total Pages | : 898 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : California, Southern |
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Author | : Kevin Starr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1990-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199923272 |
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. In a lively and eminently readable narrative, Starr reveals how Los Angeles arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles), and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil, the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture the impact of the automobile on city planning, the Hollywood film community, the L.A. literati, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.
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Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Author | : Charles E. Pearce |
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Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1915 |
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