American Decades
Deaths
I(orwith) W(ilbur) Abel, 78, steelworker and former president of the United Steelworkers of America (1965-1977), 10 August 1987.
Chester Bliss Bowles, 85, advertising executive who also served in a variety of high-ranking positions in the federal government in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and John F. Kennedy, as well as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 25 May 1986.
William Anthony "Tony" Boyle 83, labor leader who headed the United Mine Workers (1963-1972) and was later convicted for his involvement in the murders of democratic challenger Joseph A. Yablonski and his family, 31 May 1985.
August Anheuser Busch Jr., 90, businessman who served as chairman (1946-1975) of the business, the Anheuser-Busch Company, founded by his grandfather and helped to build it into the largest beer brewery in the world, 29 September 1989.
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1980's Business and the Economy
