Details for Captains of Industry

Episode Data from OTRRP
Episode Name	Episode #	Air Date	Notes
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The Story of Andrew Carnegie	1	1937-01-04	[G Plot] A biography of the great steel magnate and philanthropist.
The Story of George Westinghouse	2	1937-01-11	[G Plot] Westinghouse's big invention was air brakes for trains.
The Story of Joseph Pulitzer	3	1937-01-18	[G Plot] Pulitzer started as a cub reporter on a German newspaper and eventually bought the New York World. He continued to run 'The World' even after going blind.
The Story of Cornelius Vanderbilt	4	1937-01-25	[G Plot] Vanderbilt left his father's farm for a career as a boat owner. He swiched to the new steamboats and became known as 'The Commodore. ' He then built the New York Central Railroad and became the richest man in America.
The Story of Leland Stanford	5	1937-02-01	[G Plot] Stanford, who became influential, famous and governor of California. He had faith in the idea of a trans-continental railroad and founded Stanford University.
The Story of John Jacob Astor	6	1937-02-08	[G Plot] Astor, who traveled to Canada and succeded in the fur business, later financed the establishment of Astoria, Oregon and made another fortune in New York City real estate.
Not Broadcast		1937-02-22
The Story of Cyrus Mc Cormick	7	1937-02-25	[G Plot] After McCormick's device, 'the reaper' was invented, no one wanted to buy one! The program open and close are added locally.
The Story of Charles Lewis Tiffany	8	1937-03-05
The Story of Diamond Jim Brady	9	1937-03-12
The Story of Frank W Woolworth	10	1937-03-19
The Story of James Jerome Hill	11	1937-03-25	[G Plot] Hill was known as, 'The Empire Builder. ' He started a small trading company in St. Paul, bought a bankrupt railroad and ran the tracks of The Great Northern Railroad all the way to Seattle.
The Story of James Buchanan Eads	12	1937-04-01	[G Plot] Eads was considererd, 'one of the greatest engineers this country ever produced. ' An early interest in steam engines lead to a million dollar ship-building contract during the Civil War. Mr. Eads built a bridge over the Mississippi river at St. Louis.
The Story of Robert Dollar	13	1937-04-08	[G Plot] Dollar, a Scotsman who made a fortune in Canadian lumber, sold it all and went into the shipping business in California.
The Story of Marshall Field	14	1937-04-15	[G Plot] Field, was a store clerk who went to Chicago to seek his fortune. Becoming a retail genius, even the Chicago fire and destruction of his store failed to discourage him.
The Story of George Mortimer Pullman	15	1937-04-21
The Story of Cyrus H. K. Curtis	16	1937-04-29	[G Plot] Curtis founded a weekly newspaper; the building in which it was published burned down. He moved to Boston and purchased another weekly. He later built the Ladies' Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post into famous magazines.
The Story of Frederick Weyerhaeuser	17	1937-05-06	[G Plot] Weyerhaeuser started working in a lumber mill, formed the 'Weyerhaeuser Syndicate,' battled the I. W. W. and their industrial sabotage.
The Story of the Studebaker Brothers	18	1937-05-13	[G Plot] The Studebaker brothers of South Bend, Indiana, started by building wagons. One of the brothers headed west and did well in the California gold fields. He returned to Indiana to grow the family business and eventually started making automobiles.
The Story of George Eastman	19	1937-05-20	[G Plot] Eastman who vowed to make cameras smaller and easier to use. How the name 'Kodak' came to be. His camera proves a success for aerial photography and he developed color movie film.
The Story of William Wrigley Jr	20	1937-05-27	[G Plot] Wrigley started his career by selling soap before he switched to chewing gum, made a fortune and developed Catalina Island real estate.
The Story of Claus Spreckles	21	1937-06-03	[G Plot] Spreckles was a poor German immigrant who came to control most of the sugar industry on the west coast, industries in Hawai and the west coast, railroads and a lot more.
The Story of John Pierpont Morgan	22	1937-06-10	[G Plot] Morgan went to work for his father's bank at the age of nineteen. Profiting during the Civil War, he controlled banks, railroads and industries. He became known as, 'The Alexander Of American Finance. '
The Story of James Buchanan Duke	23	1937-06-17	[G Plot] Duke was a poor farm boy who was the first to make cigarettes by machine and to put them in boxes. He became the head of the American Tobacco Company.
The Story of Adolph Simon Ochs	24	1937-06-24	[G Plot] Ochs was a 'printer's devil' in Chattanooga, Tennessee who eventually came to buy The New York Times. He started the policy, 'All The News That's Fit To Print. '
The Story of Milton Hershey	25	1937-07-01	[G Plot] Hershey was known as, 'The Chocolate King. ' He turned $100 borrowed from his aunt into a famous candy empire.
The Story of Frank a. Munsey	26	1937-07-08	[G Plot] Munsey began a struggling weekly called, 'The Argosy. ' Buying other magazines, businesses and newspapers, he eventually became a true 'Horatio Alger. '
The Story of Eleuth Irene Du Pont	27	1937-07-15	[G Plot] du Pont started the DuPont chemical company.
The Story of Elbert Henry Gary	28	1937-07-22	[G Plot] Gary was an Illinois lawyer and judge who came to be the head of what would eventually become United States Steel.
The Story of James Couzens	29	1937-07-29	[G Plot] Couzens started working on the Erie and Huron Railroad, met Thomas Edison, went into business with young Henry Ford and became a millionaire and later a senator. He established a $10 million dollar fund for child welfare.
The Story of Edward Henry Harriman	30	1937-08-05	[G Plot] Harriman was known as, 'The wizard of the railroads. ' He became the director and president of the Illinois Central railroad, clashed with J. P. Morgan, took control of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads and was a generous philanthropist upon his death.
The Story of Elias J. Baldwin	31	1937-08-12	[G Plot] Baldwin was a shrewd trader who made a fortune with the Comstock mine in Colorado. He loved horses and built the Santa Anita racetrack.
The Story of Mark Hanna	32	1937-08-19	[G Plot] Hanna his fists to ensure labor peace on his father's steamboat, became wealthy as a shipbuilder and became chairman of the Republican National Committee.
The Story of Philip Danforth Armour	33	1937-08-26	[G Plot] Armour went to the California gold fields to build sluice boxes, and organized the famous meat packing company.
No Broadcast		1937-09-09
No Broadcast		1937-09-09
No Broadcast		1937-09-09
The Story of John Hays Hammond	34	1937-09-12	[G Plot] Hammond became an expert in gold mining, went to South Africa and led a revolt against the Boers.
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison	35	1937-09-19
The Story of John Davison Rockefeller	36	1937-09-26
The Story of King Camp Gillette	37	1937-10-03
The Story of Henry Clay Frick	38	1937-10-10
The Story of Theodore Newton Vail	39	1937-10-17
The Story of Edward L. Doheny	40	1937-10-24
The Story of Julius Rosenwald	41	1937-10-31
The Story of Otto Herman Kahn	42	1937-11-07
The Story of John Henry Patterson	43	1937-11-14
The Story of Jay Gould	44	1937-11-21
The Story of Mark Hopkins	45	1937-11-28	[G Plot] Hopkins started during the gold rush as a merchant in California selling supplies to the miners. He was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad.
The Story of Sidney Wilmot Winslow	46	1937-12-05	[G Plot] Winslow was known as, 'The Czar Of Footwear. ' He founded the United Shoe Machine Company and was involved in other companies as well.
The Story of John North Willys	47	1937-12-12	[G Plot] Willys bought the Elmira Arms Company, became a bicycle distributor and then took over the American and Overland automobile companies.
The Story of Frank a Vanderlip	48	1937-12-19	[G Plot] Vanderlip, a poor boy, became a reporter, a government financier and president of the National City Bank.
The Story of Henry Flagler	49	1937-12-26	[G Plot] Flagler was a failure at everything he tried, until he was 37 years old. Working for a store keeper for $5 per month, he started a salt refinery, eventually joined Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company and became a major developer of Florida.
The Story of John Wanamaker	50	1938-01-02	[G Plot] John Wannamaker vowed to open, 'the biggest department store in the world. '
The Story of Phineas T. Barnum	51	1938-01-09	[G Plot] Barnum conceived the idea of mass entertainment. Taking control of the 'American Museum,' he hired 'General Tom Thumb' and brought Jenny Lind from Sweden. At the age of sixty, he organized the famous circus.
The Story of William Andrews Clark	52	1938-01-16	[G Plot] Clark got the idea of traveling to Boise in the dead of winter to trade for a shipment of tobacco. At the age of 33, he started buying silver mines near Butte, Montana and became one of America's richest men smelting copper. He later became a senator and a philanthropist.