Plymouth / Omaha / Waldorf / New York City / Southampton / Boston / New York / Jacksonville / Chicago / /
Company
Modern Corporation As / E. A. Pierce & Co. / Patchogue / George H. Burr & Company / Ruddick / U.S. Steel / J. G. McCrory Co. / Burr & Co. / Family Circle / Astoria / New York Stock Exchange / St. Paul (Minnesota) Dispatch-Pioneer Press / Pierce / Albert Frank-Guenther Law / Safeway Stores / National Copper Bank / IBM / the New York Times / Wal-Mart / General Motors / Kroger / Goldman Sachs / Merrill Lynch / Leslie’s Weekly / Roper / Wall Street / Merrill Lynch & Co. / Palm Beach / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Barbados / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Company Expansion / Bankruptcy / M&A / Earnings Announcement / IPO / Business Partnership / /
Facility
club of Wall Street / Hotel Statler / Grand Central Terminal / Infantry Regiment Armory / Amherst College / headquarters of Merrill Lynch / store Financing Propelled / Johns Hopkins University / /
IndustryTerm
financial products / brokerage chain / retail climate / potato chips / retail chain experience / mass-circulation magazine / wireless telephones / finance / food retailers / soda fountain equipment / select / bank / food stands / life insurance / department store chains / middle-class retail customers / food-store chain / cost accounting / meat wholesaler / inexperienced broker / law school / consumer products / consumer product / advertising objectives / life insurance policies / /
MarketIndex
Dow 30 / /
Movie
A Piece of the Action / /
Organization
Amherst College / Brookings Institution / Johns Hopkins University / When / Federal Reserve Board / /
Person
Calvin Coolidge / Winthrop Smith / Henry Ford / Jack Adams / Louis Engel / Homer Shannon / Charles Merrill / Edmund Lynch / Charles E. Merrill / Daniel Gross / Alfred Sloan / Joseph Nocera / Charles Morton Merrill / Sebastian Kresge / /
Position
bond dealer / psychiatrist / president / zealous advocate / broker / vice president / average account executive / managing partner / king / division director / commodity and security dealer / Major / young executive / aide / meat wholesaler / specialist / investment banker / loss leader / advertising director / Model / chairman / inexperienced broker / reporter / executive / founder / /
Charles Merrill and the Democratization of Stock Ownership from Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time by Daniel Gross, et al. In 1947, when a Forbes survey identified the nation’s fifty outstanding business lead