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Pfaff protected by German tariff
Singer
Isaac Singer (1811-1875)
1856 - patent pool, Family Model A $125
began new industry - shoes, collars, veneers -
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survived 1857 Panic due to foreign sales
1863 - Imslee Hopper - emph. quality
1864 - 175 agents in Europe
1867 - built Glasgow factory
1873 - Elizabethport factory - cost $12, sold $65 -
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advertising cards, embezzlement fund
weekly reports (not by Evarts until 1880)
"a living moving army of irresistible power,
peacefully working to conquer the world." -
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1879 Bismarck tariff, kartels to control markets
1895 incorp. by George Neidlinger in Germany
1897 incorp by Rudolf Maeder in Russia - Podolsk
"Greatest Department Store on Earth"
Mira Wilkins - from trade to agents to factories
Western Union, Bell Telephone, Western Electric
Westinghouse air brakes, Remington typewriter
Pond's, Burroughs, Eastman
Equitable, New York Life, Mutual
expanding high-tech cos. create foreign demand
Spillover in Canada, Mexico
Canada 1879 policy to grant concessions
Porfiro Diaz 1877-1911 - rurales; $.25 labor
1879 Sonora RR part of Atchinson, Topeka
840 mining cos. by 1908 - highest investment
Consolidated Silver forms Batopilas Co.
Meyer Guggenheim forms ASARCO
Guggenex explores with Rhodes in South Africa
Alaska syndicate with Morgan for Kennecott copper
American Chicle, W.R. Grace
Bernard Baruch's Continental Rubber