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Dearborn
Dearborn city (1990 pop. 89,286), Wayne co., SE Mich., on the River Rouge, adjoining Detroit; settled 1795, consolidated with the city of Fordson in 1928, inc. as a city 1929. Dearborn is the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company, and the city's economy is dominated by the automobile industry; man...
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Metropolitan Opera Company
Metropolitan Opera Company term used in referring collectively to the organizations that have produced opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. The original house, at West 39th Street and Broadway, was built by members of New York society who could not be accommodated with boxes at the...
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chattel
chattel , in law, any property other than a freehold estate in land (see tenure ). A chattel is treated as personal property rather than real property regardless of whether it is movable or immovable (see property ). Certain uses of the term (e.g., chattel mortgage) refer only to movable property....
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Lake Forest
Lake Forest city (1990 pop. 17,836), Lake co., NE Ill., a prestigious residential suburb of Chicago, on Lake Michigan; inc. 1861. The city is known for its scenic lakefront and impressive estates. It is the seat of Lake Forest College, Barat College, and two preparatory schools.
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Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler 1830-1913, American financier and real-estate developer, b. Hopewell, near Canandaigua, N.Y. As a youth he struck out for himself in Ohio. After trying the grain and salt business, he joined John D. Rockefeller in oil refining. The firm of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler...
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Donald John Trump
Donald John Trump 1946-, American business executive, b. New York City. After attending the Wharton business school, he joined the family real estate business. A self-promoting and flamboyant dealmaker, he was able to secure loans with minimal collateral in the free-wheeling 1980s and created an em...
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H. Ross Perot
H. Ross Perot (Henry Ross Perot), 1930-, American business executive and political leader, b. Texarkana, Tex., grad. Annapolis, 1953. In 1957 he resigned his commission and became a salesman for IBM. In 1962 he founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS), one of the first computer data service companies....
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Agnelli
Agnelli , family of Italian industrialists.
Giovanni Agnelli, 1866-1945, served as a cavalry officer until 1892. One of the founders (1899) of Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino), he became its head in 1901. He also established (1907) Italy's first ball-bearing plant. Under Agnelli's l...
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Kadoma
Kadoma , city (1990 pop. 142,297), Osaka prefecture, Honshu, Japan, on the Furu River. It is an industrial and residential suburb of Osaka and is the headquarters of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, which produces electrical machinery, appliances, and plastics, among other things.
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broker
broker one who acts as an intermediary in a sale or other business transaction between two parties. Such a person conducts individual transactions only, is given no general authority by the employers, discloses the names of the principals in the transaction to each other, and leaves to them the con...
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