Description: COLLECTION OF 25 GREAT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS A TERRIFIC VALUE! Here's what you get... FREE-One Large 11" x 17" Album. Complete Collection of all 25 Stocks. FREE-25 Descriptive Pages with Histories of these Great American Corporations. The collection offers many of the largest & most historic Corporations. It took 20 years to assemble such an impressive collection. Of course, all are graphic, attractive, & in excellent condition. Complete list of all 25 GREAT AMERICAN CORPORATIONS Stocks A&P, AT&T, American Tobacco, Anaconda, B & O Railroad, Bond Stores, Boston & Maine, Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper, Faberge, General Foods, General Motors, Gulf State Utilities, Howard Johnson, International Mercantile Marine, ITT, Mississippi River Corp., Pan American World Airways, Pennsylvania Railroad, Phelps Dodge, Sterling Precision, Studebaker-Worthington, Union Pacific, Universal Oil Products, Washington Gas Light, White Motor. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States (&, until 1965, the largest U.S. retailer of any kind). A&P was considered an American icon that, according to The Wall Street Journal, "was as well known as McDonald's or Google is today". At its peak in the 1940s, A&P captured 10% of total US grocery spending. Known for innovation, A&P & the supermarkets that followed its lead improved nutritional habits by making available a vast assortment of food products at much lower costs. Until 1982, A&P also was a large food manufacturer. In his 1952 book, American Capitalism, John Kenneth Galbraith cited A&P's manufacturing strategy as a classic example of countervailing power that was a welcome alternative to state price controls. Founded in 1859 by George Gilman as "Gilman & Company", within a few years the firm opened a small chain of retail tea & coffee stores in New York City, & operated a national mail order business. The firm grew to 70 stores by 1878, when Gilman passed management to George Huntington Hartford, who turned A&P into the country's first grocery chain. In 1900, it operated almost 200 stores. After Hartford acquired ownership, A&P grew dramatically by introducing the economy store concept in 1912, growing to 1,600 stores in 1915. After World War I, it added stores that offered meat & produce, while expanding manufacturing. In 1930, A&P, by then the world's largest retailer, reached $2. Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
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