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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Dec 2024 Acquired Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
“On the other hand, I suspect Forrest also had his ambitions always on coming back to America anyway, and now it seemed like a pretty good time to do it.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Dec 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Mars Inc. (the chocolate story)
Transcript context
…Chocolate was a big national business. They were among the biggest companies in the country. Totally. It’s not unreasonable to think that. On the other hand, I suspect Forrest also had his ambitions always on coming back to America anyway, and now it seemed like a pretty good time to do it. In fact, it was a very good time to do it. In 1939, he leaves all of his businesses running in the UK, and he moves with his family back to the US. Also, that’s crazy. The fact that you can trust someone in the UK as World War II is breaking out, hey, you run these businesses that I own and I can trust that I continue to own them while I move across the ocean. I wouldn’t be confident that when all the dust settled, I would continue to own those businesses.…
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