History of Wal-Mart

The history of Wal-Mart can be traced back to the 1940s when Sam Walton began his career in retailing. After being interviewed by recruiters from both Sears Roebuck and JC Penney just before graduating from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Sam accepted a job offer from JC Penney. He began working at a JC …

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History of Exxon

Both Exxon and Mobil were descendants of the John D. Rockefeller corporation, Standard Oil. The reputation of Standard Oil in the public eye suffered badly after publication of Ida M. Tarbell’s classic exposé The History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904, leading to a growing outcry for the government to take action against the …

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History of Red Hat

In 1993 Bob Young incorporated the ACC Corporation, a catalog business that sold Linux and UNIX software accessories. Then in 1994 Marc Ewing created his own version of Linux, which he named Red Hat Linux. Ewing released it in October, and it became known as the Halloween release. Young bought Ewing’s business in 1995, and …

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History of Batman

Batman made his debut in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), in a six-page story called “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate,” which Bill Finger admitted was inspired by a Shadow story. It was a typical pulp murder mystery, but with all the excess verbiage removed (pulp writers were paid by the word, and it usually …

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