1. Nursing, to take care of the airsick and others who were ill.
2. RAF fighter pilots. Since ordinary fountain pens leaked at high altitudes, the RAF used ‘high altitude writing sticks’ made by Biro.
3. To spot cargo ships at sea before they came to harbour. This influenced prices at the marketplace.
4. Thomas Alva Edison.
5. The cashier would be forced to open the drawer of the cash register to return the change. Every time the drawer opened, its bell tinkled so the owner knew that the money was in the register and not in the cashier’s pocket!
6. Diners Club. It was introduced in 1960 by the Central Bank of India.
7. ICICI Ltd.
8. Landmark Bookshop, Chennai.
9. John Hertz, a Chicago entrepreneur.
10. The Road Ahead by Bill Gates.
11. Motorola.
12. Poker.
13. G H Gallup
14. Gordon Selfridge, the founder of the Selfridges store, in London.
15. The Union Budget.
16. Dhirubhai Ambani . 17. Kasturba Gandhi Medical College, Manipal.
18. Vijay Mallya who owns five newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area in USA.
19. It funded (and founded) the Nobel Prize for Economics.
1. Nursing, to take care of the airsick and others who were ill.
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3. To spot cargo ships at sea before they came to harbour. This
influenced prices at the marketplace.
4. Thomas Alva Edison.
5. The cashier would be forced to open the drawer of the cash register to return the change. Every time the drawer opened, its bell tinkled so the owner knew that the money was in the register and not in the cashier’s pocket!
6. Diners Club. It was introduced in 1960 by the Central Bank of India.
7. ICICI Ltd.
8. Landmark Bookshop, Chennai.
9. John Hertz, a Chicago entrepreneur.
10. The Road Ahead by Bill Gates.
11. Motorola.
12. Poker.
13. G H Gallup
14. Gordon Selfridge, the founder of the Selfridges store, in London.
15. The Union Budget.
16. Dhirubhai Ambani
.
17. Kasturba Gandhi Medical College, Manipal.
18. Vijay Mallya who owns five newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area in USA.
19. It funded (and founded) the Nobel Prize for Economics.
20. Bajaj Legend, in 1999