Bank of America andAmerican Express.Between the 1850s and 1990s, travelers checks became one of the main ways that people took money on vacation for use in foreign countries without the risks associated with carrying large amounts of cash....
There used to be talk of a “third shift” in the Asian shoe factories where, after the big-brand-name overseers had gone home, the plant was fired up again and worked all night making the exact same product for sales outside the brand’s distribution chain. The big brands never knew ...