social science businesses

Technology firm that understood the need for cooperation between big business and government

Major American railroad network; replaced a meager 15,000 tons of steel in rails in 1931, demonstrating the decrease in private investment

Large bank that held the savings of many Jewish immigrants; its December 1930 failure triggered mass panic due to its name, which made it sound like an official part of the American government

Lender that was part of the group to which brokers owed $6.6 billion by October 1929

Holding company located in Nashville; became insolvent in late 1930, triggering another bank panic

Media company that offered Charles Edward Coughlin a nationally broadcasted radio show

Type of car produced by General Motors; manufactured at a body plant in Flint, Michigan, at which workers organized a successful sitdown strike

Automobile manufacturer; lender that was part of the group to which brokers owed $6.6 billion by October 1929

Company in Rochester, New York that managed its own welfare program in order to keep workers from joining unions

Organization that specialized in real estate loans right when the post-World War II housing boom triggered a surge in demand for longterm mortgages

Automobile company that offered the United Automobile Workers a contract with cost-of-living adjustments; recognized the United Automobile Workers in December 1936 after a sit-down strike

Investment firm that provided professionally managed portfolios

Technology firm that understood the need for cooperation between big business and government

Company that organized a $20 million buying pool to stop the rapid decline in stock prices in late 1929

Third largest American steel producer that participated in the court case that established the constitutionality of the Wagner Act

Significant Vienna bank that closed in May 1931, exacerbating the economic crisis

Construction company that used World War II mass production methods to construct houses for war industry employees

Investment firm founded by Charles Merrill

Media company that earned a fortune by producing nine movies about the Hardy family between 1936 and 1940

Bank that employed Charles A. Mitchell; its stocks plummeted in late 1929 despite a $20 million buying pool

Group established in a former female high school in 1932; mobilizedthe unemployed to make clothing, construct shelters, and prepare produce

Private corporation that offered land to jobless Americans for cultivation

Company whose unionized workers held a Memorial Day picnic that was disrupted by Chicago police in the Memorial Day Massacre

Business featured in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States; a kosher poultry store in Brooklyn, New York accused of violating the National Recovery Agency live poultry code

Oil-selling company owned by the Rockefellers: lender that was part of the group to which brokers owed $6.6 billion by October 1929

Company that successfully crippled unionization in the steel industry until March 1, 1937, when it formally recognized the United Steelworkers as the official collective bargaining representative for labor

Central bank against which Andrew Jackson fought in the 1830s