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AT&T
Technology firm that understood the need for cooperation between big business and government
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Major American railroad network; replaced a meager 15,000 tons of steel in rails in 1931, demonstrating the decrease in private investment
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Bank of United States
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
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Bethlehem Steel
Lender that was part of the group to which brokers owed $6.6 billion by October 1929
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Caldwell and Company
Holding company located in Nashville; became insolvent in late 1930, triggering another bank panic
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CBS
Media company that offered Charles Edward Coughlin a nationally broadcasted radio show
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Chevrolet
Type of car produced by General Motors; manufactured at a body plant in Flint, Michigan, at which workers organized a successful sitdown strike
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Chrysler Corporation
Automobile manufacturer; lender that was part of the group to which brokers owed $6.6 billion by October 1929
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Eastman Kodak
Company in Rochester, New York that managed its own welfare program in order to keep workers from joining unions
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Federal National Mortgage Association
Organization that specialized in real estate loans right when the post-World War II housing boom triggered a surge in demand for longterm mortgages
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General Motors
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
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Goldman & Sachs Trading Corporation
Investment firm that provided professionally managed portfolios
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IBM
Technology firm that understood the need for cooperation between big business and government
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J.P. Morgan & Co.
Company that organized a $20 million buying pool to stop the rapid decline in stock prices in late 1929
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Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.
Third largest American steel producer that participated in the court case that established the constitutionality of the Wagner Act
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Kreditanstalt
Significant Vienna bank that closed in May 1931, exacerbating the economic crisis
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Levitt and Sons
Construction company that used World War II mass production methods to construct houses for war industry employees
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Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith
Investment firm founded by Charles Merrill
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MGM
Media company that earned a fortune by producing nine movies about the Hardy family between 1936 and 1940
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National City Bank
Bank that employed Charles A. Mitchell; its stocks plummeted in late 1929 despite a $20 million buying pool
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Organized Unemployed Inc.
Group established in a former female high school in 1932; mobilizedthe unemployed to make clothing, construct shelters, and prepare produce
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Private corporation that offered land to jobless Americans for cultivation
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Republic Steel
Company whose unionized workers held a Memorial Day picnic that was disrupted by Chicago police in the Memorial Day Massacre
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Schechter Poultry Corporation
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
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Standard Oil
Oil-selling company owned by the Rockefellers: lender that was part of the group to which brokers owed $6.6 billion by October 1929
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U.S. Steel Corporation
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
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United States Bank
Central bank against which Andrew Jackson fought in the 1830s
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