World War - Publications - Faculty & Research

Charles M. Schwab

Though Bethlehem was originally spun off from U.S. Steel, Schwab positioned the company to become a major competitor of its former parent. Under Schwab’s leadership, Bethlehem was a large supplier for Allied Forces in World View Details

Keywords: Metals

Victor Emanuel

During World War II, Emanuel produced all types of military aircraft, including giant bombers, aircraft carriers, and cruisers. After the war, Emanuel led the conversion of AVCO from a producer of aircraft... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Juan T. Trippe

supporting the Allied Forces in the Pacific during World War II. Such dealings, in conjunction with Trippe’s acquisition of landing rights all over the world, helped PanAm become an industry leader in... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Herman G. Fisher

America’s suburban make-up after World War II, and Fisher’s ability to capture this market through discount mass marketing, revenues at Fisher-Price grew sharply reaching over $26 million in 1966. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

James S. Love

Beginning as a rayon producer, Love built the world’s largest textile mill by the mid-1950s. Love, the architect of the company’s growth, expanded the company to 22 plants by 1936 and bought six hosiery mills. After World View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

John R. Simplot

Investing in businesses that ranged from cattle to potatoes to fertilizer, Simplot used his talent at achieving efficiency and at spotting a growing market to garner enormous profits. Simplot capitalized on the Army’s World View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Martin W. Clement

lines from New York City to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Harrisburg. At the end of World War II, Pennsylvania Railroad controlled 6% of the railway mileage in the U.S., but more than 20% of the... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Elmer F. Pierson

Pierson founded the Vendo Company in 1937 after perfecting the development of the first truly workable vending system - a lid called “The Red Top.” Originally designed for Coca-Cola bottles, the new vending machines were quickly converted to handle a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

John F. Queeny

When base-chemical shipments stopped coming from Germany during World War I, Queeny kept his company afloat by transforming it into its own raw materials producer. By the time of his death, Monsanto had... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

10 Nov 2017
News

Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family

Karoline Cohn, who would have been about 12 at the time of World War II, are gathering this week in Germany to dedicate a memorial in her honor. Many of these relatives, who are travelling from the US,... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

William L. Stewart

Assuming control of Union Oil from his father, William Stewart’s first task was to repair the company’s finances, which had suffered under his father’s huge waves of expansion. Stewart accomplished this without problems and guided Union to profitability, capitalizing... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Peter F. Hurst

In 1940, Hurst, an engineer by training, invented two new products that were critical to the growing aviation industry – detachable, reusable hose fittings and self-sealing couplings. As aviation took hold during World View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Portrait Project

Long Lu

Beat the drum that others will listen to. My grandfather was a general in the Chinese Air Force. A veteran of World War II, he taught me the core values of integrity, authenticity, dependability - and most... View Details

Haroldson L. Hunt

Hunt built the largest independent oil company in the U.S. During World War II, Hunt sold more oil to the Allies than the total German output, and supplied 85% of the natural gas piped into the eastern... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Ward Melville

After mass-producing shoes for soldiers in World War I, Melville and an associate opened Thom McAn’s in New York as a low cost, high quality shoe retailer. The chain eventually encompassed over 1,200 stores.... View Details

Keywords: Retail

John J. McCloy

McCloy orchestrated the merger between Chase and Manhattan, forming the second largest commercial bank in the United States. Educated as a lawyer, McCloy was very active and successful in a variety of fields. He pursued private law, served as an advisor to the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Portrait Project

Tian Tian

However, I know somewhere deep in my heart I am constantly searching for surprises, adventures, and unknowns. "Life is a journey. But not everyone gets the chance to plan his/her itinerary," my father told me. He was born during View Details

Louis B. Neumiller

Under Neumiller's "home-town-boy" leadership style, Caterpillar's revenues grew from over $100 million in 1941 to $827 million in 1963, prospering through World War II and the global post-war boom.... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Paul G. Hoffman

Hoffman, the Studebaker company executive, is one of the few auto company presidents to have risen from the sales department. In the first nine-months of his tenure, sales totaled 30,194, which put the company fourth among the independent passenger car producers. By... View Details