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McGill-Queen's University Press
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English
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"One of the wildest, most spectacular decades in American history, the 1920s were a period of unprecedented growth and mass consumerism. In the New Era, people drank in speakeasies, danced to jazz, idolized gangsters, and bet their life savings on stocks. Born and raised in a small Canadian town, Arthur Cutten went to Chicago in 1890 with ninety dollars to his name. Through utter ruthlessness, he amassed a fortune trading in grain futures and stocks....
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Transnational corporations straddle the globe, largely unseen by the public. Cargill, with its headquarters in the US, is the largest private corporation in North America, and possibly in the world. Cargill trades in food commodities and produces a great many of them: grains, flour, malt, corn, cotton, salt, vegetable oils, fruit juices, animal feeds, and meat.
Among its most profitable activities is its trade in the global financial markets....
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Report / 94th Congress 2d session Senate volume no. 94-1389
Report / 94th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume no. 94-1722
Report / 94th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume no. 94-1722
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U.S. G.P.O
Pub. Date
[1976]
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English