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J.P. Morgan & Co. and the crisis of capitalism
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ISBN: 9781108653602 9781108498371 9781108735766 110849837X 110865360X 1108663567 1316998851 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"Late in February 1930 Owen Young journeyed by private railcar to Arizona. Young was at the height of his fame as a General Electric executive, as the founder of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and as an international statesman whose name adorned the just concluded Young Plan. Time magazine named him man of the year in 1929. He was bruited as a possible Presidential candidate in 1932. Discussion with his travelling companion, Everett Case, turned to Young's friend, J.P. Morgan Jr. [Jack Morgan], the senior partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. Young thought that it was a pity that Jack Morgan was so little known to the American public, for J.P. Morgan & Co. was "the most important banking house in the world with the power of affecting the lives of people in this country and throughout the world". A decade later, Morris Ernst, a prominent New York lawyer and the general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1929-55, wrote another Morgan partner, Russell C. Leffingwell. Ernst mused "I think your house has a responsibility that is practically superhuman, and assuming complete honesty and ability can never be met to the satisfaction of society." Young was an intimate of the Morgan partners, Ernst a critic who believed that the Morgan part in American life was baleful. Both agreed that J.P. Morgan & Co.'s influence was pervasive"--


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Automated driving : safer and more efficient driving in the future
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ISBN: 3319318934 3319318950 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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The main topics of this book include advanced control, cognitive data processing, high performance computing, functional safety, and comprehensive validation. These topics are seen as technological bricks to drive forward automated driving. The current state of the art of automated vehicle research, development and innovation is given. The book also addresses industry-driven roadmaps for major new technology advances as well as collaborative European initiatives supporting the evolvement of automated driving. Various examples highlight the state of development of automated driving as well as the way forward. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers within engineering, graduate students, automotive engineers at OEMs and suppliers, ICT and software engineers, managers, and other decision-makers.


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The politics of industrial collaboration during World War II : Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany
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ISBN: 1139950150 1139960768 1139061003 113995864X 1139956523 1139959700 1139957597 9781139957595 1107016363 1139949098 9781139061001 9781107016361 9781139950152 9781139960762 9781139956529 9781139959704 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufacturing fewer vehicles than they could have? Ford SAF claimed after the war that they did. Exploring the nature and limits of industrial collaboration in occupied France, Horn and Imlay trace the wartime activities of Ford Motor Company's French affiliate. The company began making trucks and engine parts for the French military; but from 1940 until Liberation in 1944 was supplying the Wehrmacht. This book offers a fascinating account of how the company negotiated the conflicting demands of the French, German and American authorities to thrive during the war. It sheds important new light on broader issues such as the wartime relationship between private enterprise and state authority; Nazi Germany's economic policies and the nature of the German occupation of France, collaboration and resistance in Vichy France, and the role of American companies in Occupied Europe.

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