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The Mega-Brands That Built America

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The innovations, failures and incredible achievements of some of the most successful businesses in history, from megastores like Costco and Walmart to shipping giants like FedEx and UPS, that forever changed the way Americans live.

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The Mega-Brands That Built America The World Delivered

A century ago, shipping packages was slow and shipping overnight was impossible, until two Seattle brothers risk everything to reinvent shipping packages for all; a tenacious Yale graduate creates a world-famous express delivery service.

10:00 AM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America The World Delivered

A century ago, shipping packages was slow and shipping overnight was impossible, until two Seattle brothers risk everything to reinvent shipping packages for all; a tenacious Yale graduate creates a world-famous express delivery service.

3:00 PM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America The World Delivered

A century ago, shipping packages was slow and shipping overnight was impossible, until two Seattle brothers risk everything to reinvent shipping packages for all; a tenacious Yale graduate creates a world-famous express delivery service.

1:00 AM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America Dirty Work

James Gamble and Harley Procter invent a revolutionary new soap that revolutionizes America and opens up a market to entrepreneurs in the late 1800s, when Americans rarely bathed and deadly diseases were commonplace.

10:00 AM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America Dirty Work

James Gamble and Harley Procter invent a revolutionary new soap that revolutionizes America and opens up a market to entrepreneurs in the late 1800s, when Americans rarely bathed and deadly diseases were commonplace.

3:00 PM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America Dirty Work

James Gamble and Harley Procter invent a revolutionary new soap that revolutionizes America and opens up a market to entrepreneurs in the late 1800s, when Americans rarely bathed and deadly diseases were commonplace.

1:00 AM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America End of the Landlines

The technology battle among international telecommunications companies to produce the most popular cell phone, from flip phones to ringtones to text messaging; Blackberry combines the features of a computer with a cell phone to make a smartphone.

10:00 AM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America End of the Landlines

The technology battle among international telecommunications companies to produce the most popular cell phone, from flip phones to ringtones to text messaging; Blackberry combines the features of a computer with a cell phone to make a smartphone.

3:00 PM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America End of the Landlines

The technology battle among international telecommunications companies to produce the most popular cell phone, from flip phones to ringtones to text messaging; Blackberry combines the features of a computer with a cell phone to make a smartphone.

1:00 AM on History 2 Canada

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The Mega-Brands That Built America Internet Killed the Video Store

A database software engineer is inspired to create a bigger, family-friendly video store, Blockbuster; an opening appears for two software executives in California to take on the media giant with their online subscription service, Netflix.

10:00 AM on History 2 Canada

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