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Created: May 11, 2020
Last Updated: May 11, 2020
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Many Americans may think of Labor Day as the end of summer or a day of rest, parades, picnics, or store sales. Labor Day is so much more.
In September 1950 the Insurance Company of North America (INA), the largest and oldest company of its kind in the United States, introduced a profoundly innovative idea that transformed the insurance industry.
Today when people hear someone speak of the "great depression" most automatically think of the severe financial downturn beginning in 1929, but for many years prior to that, the term "great depression" conjured up images of the financial distress ushered in by the Panic of 1873.
Patent number 221,360 was issued on November 4, 1879, for a machine that was designed to solve the problem of employee theft - the cash registered.
The Xerox 914 was unveiled on September 16, 1959 and has been a staple in office large and small ever since.
John Merrick was born enslaved on September 7, 1859. He went on to become an entrepreneur, a community leader, and a philanthropist.