Sewell Avery
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title:
Sewell Avery
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Sewell Lee Avery (November 4, 1874 – October 31, 1960) was an American businessman who achieved early prominence in gypsum mining and became president of the United States Gypsum Company (1905–1936). At the beginning of the Depression, he was asked by J.P. Morgan & Co. to turn around the failing Montgomery Ward and succeeded in restoring its profitability by making huge changes. In 1936, Fortune magazine said that Avery was "generally held to be the No. 1 Chicago businessman." In the postwar yea
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American businessman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewell_Avery
date created:
2007-12-14T03:33:14Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T03:08:10Z
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