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1950: Deming charts Japans remarkable course

1983: Sam Walton explores the final frontier
1957: Arthur Rock funds the Traitorous Eight
2000: Jerry Levin decides he doesnt need a colar
1975: Walter Wriston automates the teller
1985; Grove fires himself
1955: Ruth Handler bets Mattel on Mouseketeers
1984: Ma Bell gives away her babies
1964: Thomas Watson Jr. does a 360
1906: Giannini opens his vaults after the quake
1903: King Gillette decides to throw away the blades
1929: Good-Time Charlie sells his stock
1935: Pan Am flies the ocean blue
1914: Ford offers $5 a day
1985: Drexel Burnham writes a highly confident letter
1972: Ford decides to let the Pinto explode
1980: Reg Jones picks Jack
1925: Sears get physical
1876: Western Union hangs up on Bells new invention
20. 1970: Curt Flood refuses to play ball