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RECORD NUMBER: 2 OF 2| Main Title | Faith, hope, and $5,000 : the story of Monsanto : the trials and triumphs of the first 75 years / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Forrestal, Dan J. | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 1977 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 02964857 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 067122784X; 9780671227845 | |||||||||||
| Additional Subjects | Monsanto Company--History | |||||||||||
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| Collation | 285 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes index. |
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| Contents Notes | This absorbing historical account is wonderfully anecdotal and alive with the trials as well as the triumphs of a $4 billion multinational company. Tracing it from its founding in 1901 for the purpose of making saccharin - in the days when the synthetic sweetener was a German monopoly - the book reveals how the Germans tried to force founder John F. Queeny out of business, and how the company grew after World War I under the leaderhsip of Edgar Monstanto Queeny, the founder's son. |