Hughes Tool Company

But hey.

During World War II, FDR nationalized airplane manufacturers, gun manufacturers, over 3,300 mines, the nation's railroads, dozens of oil companies, Western Electric Company, Hughes Tool Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, and even Montgomery Ward, as Krugman brilliantly details.

He also nationalized 17 foreign companies doing business with the U.S., After FDR died, Harry Truman continued seizing companies.

He nationalized meatpacking facilities across the country in the Monongahela Railroad Company, the nation's steel mills and hundreds of railroad companies.

All were returned to private ownership after the war, but the temporary nationalization helped get America through the crisis.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt did the same thing during World War II, nationalizing airplane manufacturers, gun manufacturers, over 3,300 mines, the nation's railroads, dozens of oil companies, Western Oil Electric Company, Hughes Tool Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, and even one of the nation's largest retailers, Montgomery Ward.

He also nationalized 17 foreign companies doing business in the U.S., After FDR died, President Harry Truman continued seizing companies that were using the war as an excuse to jack up profits to the detriment of our nation.

He nationalized meatpacking facilities across the country, the Monongahela Railroad Company, the nation's steel mills, and hundreds of rail companies.

This whole town was rallying around the Glomar.

The ship was completed on schedule and put in the water after an obligatory bottle of champagne christening and even more obligatory press release from execs at the Hughes Tool Company.

Wait, why do we do the whole champagne christening thing? Where does that come from? Seems like we're wasting perfectly good bubbly.

Let's see what Google says.

He nationalized the nation's railroads.

He nationalized dozens of oil companies, Western Electric Company, the Hughes Tool Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber.

and even Montgomery Ward, along with 17 foreign companies doing business in the United States.

After FDR died, Harry Truman came along, finished the war.

His father had made a substantial fortune with a patent on a rotary drill bit, a design that could chew through hard rock oil formations that defeated everyone else's equipment.

The Hughes Tool Company generated the kind of revenue that compounds on itself.

And when Howard's parents both died before he turned 20, he inherited the entire enterprise.

He could have lived out his days doing nothing much and been comfortable for generations.