Bloomberg Businessweek - USA (2019-12-23)

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Bloomberg Businessweek December 23, 2019

▼1920s

● 1929

The first issue of The Business Week appears. It’s a

weekly remake of the Magazine of Business, which

was acquired a year before through the purchase of

A.W. Shaw Co. of Chicago.

● 1929

A month and a half later, on Oct. 28, the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 13% and an additional

12% the next day, helping set the Great Depression in motion.

90 Years of

Businessweek

By Peter Coy, James E. Ellis,

Paula Dwyer, and Joel Weber

WALL STREET: AP PHOTO. MCGRAW-HILL BUILDING: SAMUEL H. GOTTSCHO/MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK COLLECTION