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    MC, DFC, FRSA, FRGS (6 November 1912 – 5 April 1979) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney...
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    Josh Harris, and Marc Rowan, former investment bankers at the defunct Drexel Burnham Lambert. The company is headquartered in the Solow Building in New...
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    Jensen Motors Kaiser Motors King Midget made by the Midget Motors Corporation LaSalle Leyland Motors Locomobile Company of America Marmon Motor Car Company...
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    Masco (redirect from Masco Corporation)
    started a home furnishings division by buying Henredon for $298 million and Drexel Heritage for $356 million. Other companies added to the division were Lexington...
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  • JLL Partners (category Drexel Burnham Lambert)
    Corporation, a small New York brokerage. They initially leased their office space from Bennett S. LeBow, a 1980s corporate raider and fellow Drexel Burnham...
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  • List of defunct automobile manufacturers of the United States (category Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States)
    (1915–1924) Douglas (1918–1919) Downing Motor Company (1913–1915) Dragon Automobile Company (1906–1908) Drake (1921–1922) Drexel (1916–1917) Driggs-Seabury (1915;...
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    The SS Drexel Victory was a Victory-class cargo ship built during World War II. The SS Drexel Victory (MCV-712), was a type VC2-S-AP2 victory ship built...
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    Edison DuPont Federal Steel Company General Electric General Motors Hartford Carpet Corporation Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company International Harvester...
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    "Factories redeveloped by shipping firms HCL Logistics and Drexel Industries". General Motors Diesel Ltd. - London, Ontario by R.L.Kennedy] on Trainweb...
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    1990. Eichenwald, Kurt (14 February 1990). "THE COLLAPSE OF DREXEL BURNHAM LAMBERT; Drexel, Symbol of Wall St. Era, Is Dismantling; Bankruptcy Filed"....
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    Martin Drexel (1792–1863), Philadelphia banker, progenitor of the Drexel banking dynasty Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826–1893), founder of Drexel University...
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  • personality Mary Duke Biddle – philanthropist and wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009) – philanthropist Evelyn Lauder – co-creator...
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  • General Dynamics Land Systems (category Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Michigan)
    Macomb County "Factories redeveloped by shipping firms HCL Logistics and Drexel Industries". De Bono, Norman (30 September 2015). "Union asks NDP to keep...
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    China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC; 中国国际金融股份有限公司) is a Chinese partially state-owned multinational investment management and financial...
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    Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1851 as the New York and...
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    III (1851–1933), married Emilie Taylor Drexel (1851–1883) daughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. (1874–1948), subject of novel...
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    Corporation for $31.1 billion in stock, which, until 1989, had been owned by Gulf+Western (now part of National Amusements), and later by Ford Motor Credit...
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  • With this new technology, several scientists, including Karen Moxon at Drexel, John Chapin at SUNY, and Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University, started research...
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  • Falcon (radio series), a radio drama featuring the detective created by Drexel Drake in 1936 Falcon (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe...
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    Helene L. Kaplan, former Chairman of the Carnegie Corporation of New York Mark N. Kaplan, former CEO of Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1970 to 1977 and CEO of...
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    age. He worked as an accountant until eventually becoming a partner at Drexel, Morgan & Co. in 1871. By 1885, he began buying out railroads and reorganizing...
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    Buyout Yet". The New York Times, November 17, 1985. Sterngold, James. "Drexel's Role in Beatrice Deal Examined". The New York Times, April 28, 1988. Fisher...
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    1840. The electric clock's mainspring is wound either with an electric motor or with an electromagnet and armature. In 1841, he first patented the electromagnetic...
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    Morgan and Harold Stanley, left J.P. Morgan & Co. and joined others from the Drexel partners to form Morgan Stanley. The firm formally opened its doors for...
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  • Anne L. Stevens (category Drexel University alumni)
    executive officer of Carpenter Technology Corporation and vice president of North America Vehicle Operations for Ford Motor Company. Stevens was born in Reading...
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    S2CID 140652348. Lindsay J.M. & Alley, N.F. (1995): St Vincent Basin. In: Drexel, J.F. & Preiss, W.V. (Eds.) The geology of South Australia. Vol.2, The Phanerozoic...
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  • other enterprises. In 1910 William C. Durant of the fledgling General Motors Corporation gave control of his company to the Seligmans and Lee, Higginson &...
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    and the Vanderbilt family. In 1889, Drexel, Morgan & Co., a company founded by J.P. Morgan and Anthony J. Drexel financed Edison's research and helped...
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    on by his son, David Donohue, a successful road racer in his own right. Drexel University presented Mark Donohue with its Engineering and Science Award...
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    activity. In later years, Milken and Drexel would shy away from certain of the more "notorious" corporate raiders as Drexel and the private equity industry...
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