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Barnes & Noble.com - Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams - Michael D'Antonio - Hardcover

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  • . Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams Format: Hardcover Pub.
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  • . Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams ANNOTATION THIS BOOK IS NEITHER LICENSED NOR SPONSORED BY THE HERSHEY COMPANY.
  • . FROM THE PUBLISHER Hershey.
  • . Hershey brought affordable milk chocolate to America, creating and then satisfying the chocoholic urges of millions.
  • . But as he developed massive factories, Cuban sugar plantations, and a vacation wonderland called Hershey Park, M.S.
  • . chocolate market, and his town, Hershey, Pennsylvania, was the ideal American village.



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  • . / / / / / / / / Created: 2nd May 2001 Milton S Hershey Like this page? Milton Snavely Hershey was born 13 September, 1857, to a Pennsylvania German family in a fieldstone home built by his great-grandfather in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • . But a year earlier, Hershey had seen the future at the 1893 Worlds Colombian Exposition in Chicago when he met with the manufacturers of German chocolate-making machines.
  • . Hershey decided to locate his factory near the place where he was born among the cornfields of Derry Township.
  • . However, instead of producing a lot of different products, this time Hershey focused on one thing - chocolate.
  • . And as the factory was being built, Hershey worked in the barn at the old family homestead, experimenting until he found the perfect tasting chocolate that would be the cornerstone of the Hershey Chocolate Company.
  • . Many of the hand-lettered deeds for the houses surrounding the factory were sold by Hershey himself to his workers.
  • . But in addition to homes, Hershey founded many of the town’s facilities - the electric company, fire department, sewerage and water systems, telephone concern, and several churches.



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  • . / / / / / / Created: 2nd May 2001 The Milton S Hershey Medical Center Like this page? Outside the main entrance to The Medical Center there is a small blue and white sign, which details the infamous $50 million phone call that lead to the creation of the hospital and medical school.
  • . In the early 1960s, the Hershey Trust sought to perpetuate the philanthropy of chocolate baron Milton S Hershey.
  • . The first step was finding a way to allow for spending the money for something other than the school Hershey founded for orphan boys.
  • . With the legal details worked out internally, the $50 million phone call took place as the Hershey Trust contacted Pennsylvania State University's trustees.
  • . The only condition the Trust placed on the university was that the Medical Center must be built in Hershey.
  • . An offer of $50 million swayed the university and then the Hershey Trust officials and attorneys contacted the governor and state attorney general to seek their blessings.
  • . With the state's political leadership on board, the Trust approached the county courts to get approval to transfer the money from the Milton Hershey School Trust to the MS Hershey Foundation.






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