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Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story : The Most Secret Corporation and How It Engineered the World by Laton Mccartney
epub |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Laton Mccartney [McCartney, Laton]

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES engineers in the room.” All those present-engineers to a man-exploded in laughter. All, that is, except Steve junior, who stormed out in a huff. The basic ...
( Category: Industries September 20,2018 )
Big Is Beautiful by Robert D. Atkinson & Michael Lind
epub |eng | 2018-04-23 | Author:Robert D. Atkinson & Michael Lind

Instead, electric conveyor belts plus trucking made possible the construction of even larger factories on greenfield sites. The geographic scope of centralized corporations expanded as passenger air travel allowed trips ...
( Category: Economics September 15,2018 )
Funny Money by Mark Singer
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Singer [Singer, Mark]

Above all, banking at Penn Square was expedient. A borrower did not have to make four trips to the bank to get his money. You could sign a note in ...
( Category: Economics September 8,2018 )
How the Mighty Fall_And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Jim Collins [Collins, Jim]

The signature of the truly great versus the merely successful is not the absence of difficulty, but the ability to come back from setbacks, even cataclysmic catastrophes, stronger than before. ...
( Category: Management & Leadership September 6,2018 )
More Money Than God_Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
epub |eng | 2010-06-10 | Author:Sebastian Mallaby [Mallaby, Sebastian]

ONE MILE NORTH OF TIGER’S OFFICE, A SHORT WALK FROM Central Park, Robertson’s friends and rivals at Quantum were fighting a parallel battle. At the start of 1999, Stan Druckenmiller, ...
( Category: Investing September 6,2018 )
Bananas by Peter Chapman
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Peter Chapman [Chapman, Peter]

8 On the Inside United Fruit worked its way into the heart of US life, into the family and the affairs of state and, when it mattered most, into the ...
( Category: Biography & History September 4,2018 )
The Coffee Visionary by Jasper Houtman
epub |eng | 2016-08-19 | Author:Jasper Houtman

TWO COMPANIES It was my lucky day,” Starbucks cofounder Jerry Baldwin said, when he heard that he could buy Peet’s. In 1984, thirteen years after the founding of Starbucks, he ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 20,2018 )
Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage by Eamon Javers
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Eamon Javers [Javers, Eamon]

“You see, Charlie, not so very long ago there used to be thousands of people working in Mr. Willy Wonka’s factory. Then one day, all of a sudden, Mr. Wonka ...
( Category: True Crime August 18,2018 )
Hell's Cartel_IG Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys
epub |eng | 2008-07-22 | Author:Diarmuid Jeffreys [Jeffreys, Diarmuid]

11 BUNA AT AUSCHWITZ As far as Denis Avey could remember, the day had begun much like any other. Early that morning his section had been marched to the site ...
( Category: World August 12,2018 )
All the Tea in China by Jeremy Haft
epub |eng | 2007-08-11 | Author:Jeremy Haft

PAYMENT FLOW Managing Information If you’re a small business, the thorniest aspect of importing may very well be the documentation. Many small businesses complain that they get hamstrung over this. ...
( Category: International August 12,2018 )
Never Lost Again by Bill Kilday
epub |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Bill Kilday

Chapter 11 Launching Google Maps Mania At 5:30 a.m. on a chilly morning in late January of 2005, the forty-person Keyhole team (we had already begun to multiply our ranks) ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics August 11,2018 )
From Autogiro to Gyroplane: The Amazing Survival of an Aviation Technology by Bruce H. Charnov
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Bruce H. Charnov

But such activities and reconnaissance missions in which the Autogiro ventured into harm's way always carried with it the possibility of confrontation with the enemy. As Lieutenants Gregory and Nichols ...
( Category: Transportation August 11,2018 )
The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:David Graeber [Graeber, David]

Antithesis Yet even those areas of science and technology that did receive massive funding have not seen the breakthroughs originally anticipated At this point, the pieces would seem to be ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 11,2018 )
Giants of Enterprise by Richard S. Tedlow
epub |eng | 2007-08-10 | Author:Richard S. Tedlow [Richard S. Tedlow]

If a Chen-Yu nail enamel color chart somehow walked out of a store in a salesman’s briefcase…well, it could always be replaced by a Revlon color chart. If the bottle ...
( Category: Economics August 11,2018 )
Crashed by Adam Tooze
epub |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Adam Tooze

Source: Bruegel, National Central Banks. III By May 2011, confidence was so shaky that a secret Eurogroup meeting was hurriedly convened in Luxembourg. Scheduled for Friday, May 6, it was ...
( Category: Economics August 10,2018 )

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