Jim Casey: The Unknown Entrepreneur Who Built the Great UPS
These days the news and chatter on the Internet are filled with stories of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook. In this environment, it can be easy to forget or take for granted the other great enterprises that make the world go ’round. On August 28, 1907,...
Olive Ann Beech: Queen of the Aircraft Industry
There are stories that take tragedy to unearth. When the world bears witness to great ability, new awareness changes the narrative of today and rewrites the influence of the past. Walter Beech, stunt pilot and renowned engineer, built the Beech Aircraft Company into...
Conrad Hilton: The Dreamer Who Conquered an Industry
Conrad Nicholson Hilton was born to wealth. His father, “Colonel” A. H. “Gus” Hilton, was the leading merchant and trader in the tiny sun-baked mining village of San Antonio, New Mexico. Young Connie wanted to become a banker, and at age thirty-one he went to Texas to...
