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Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won’t know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kraft, Maytag, Hertz, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson? Milton Bradley? Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind the corporate names.

Dow Jones
Dow Chemical
Dun and Bradstreet
DuPont
W.R. Grace
E.F. Hutton
H & R Block
Merrill Lynch
Monsanto
Procter & Gamble
RJ Reynolds
Tandy Corporation
Westinghouse