Subcategories - Business
- Upton Sinclair Publishes The Jungle
- USA Today Is Launched
- Value-Added Taxes Bring a More Efficient Tax System to Europe
- Van Gogh’s Irises Sells for $53.9 Million
- Viacom Buys Columbia Broadcasting System
- Video Rental Outlets Gain Popularity
- VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software Is Marketed
- Voest Develops the Basic Oxygen Process for Steelmaking
- Volkswagen Opens the First Foreign-Owned U.S. Auto Plant
- Vons Opens Its First Tianguis Marketplace
- The Wagner Act Promotes Union Organization
- The Wagner Act Requires Employers to Accept Collective Bargaining
- The Wall Street Journal Prints the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Walt Disney
- Walter Dill Scott Publishes The Theory of Advertising
- Wartime Tax Laws Impose an Excess Profits Tax
- Watt Expands Energy Leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf
- WEAF Airs the First Paid Radio Commercial
- West African Gold First Reaches North Africa
- West Germany Bans Immigration of Workers from Outside the EEC
- The Wheeler-Lea Act Broadens FTC Control over Advertising
- Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin
- The Wholesome Poultry Products Act Is Passed
- William Randolph Hearst
- The World Health Organization Condemns Use of Infant Formula
- World Leaders Confer on the Environment and Development
- The Y2K Crisis Finally Arrives
- The Yankees Acquire Babe Ruth
- Yugo Begins Selling Cars in the United States
- “Peace” Virus Attacks Mac Computers
