Top Items About Competition
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | 19th Century whale oil industry & the economics of oil | Rocky Mountain Institute CEO Amory Lovins: "In 1850, the fifth-biggest industry in our country was whaling, and most... | root | 151 | |
| Anecdotes | Devilish Duveen | One day a rival art dealer sent an Old Master painting on a religious theme to one of Joseph Duveen`s clients - a... | Anonymous | 79 | |
| Anecdotes | ITT CEO Harold Geneen vs Congressman Emanuel Celler | And another elephant story: a Congressional subcommittee under Emanuel Celler in 1969 investigated the dangers conglomerates... | root | 78 | |
| Anecdotes | 20 / 20 Vision? | At a state banquet one day, Mrs. Sargent Shriver, the wife of the US ambassador to France, found herself seated beside... | Anonymous | 49 | |
| Anecdotes | IBM responds to the personal computer revolution | The personal computer revolution caught IBM off | root | 48 | |
| Anecdotes | Top Billing | Noted violinist Jascha Heifetz, who often played with pianist Arthur Rubinstein and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky,... | Anonymous | 29 | |
| Anecdotes | Tigers Trade | Bob James was once traded from the Montreal Expos to the Detroit Tigers for a player "to be named later." At the end of... | Anonymous | 29 | |
| Anecdotes | Donald Trump: The Donald | Shortly after the construction of the twin-towered Time Warner Center in Manhattan (home to twenty million dollar... | Anonymous | 27 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Crime, Competition and Revenge | A 27-year-old jobless Oregon man with an MBA once blamed his college degree for the murder of three people. `There are... | Anonymous | 26 | |
| Anecdotes | Fighting Words! | During the Civil War, Henry Ward Beecher traveled to England in order to solicit British support for the Northern cause. | Anonymous | 22 |
