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AFL-CIO: The umbrella organization for many labor unions in the United States, with AFL standing for American Federation of Labor, and CIO the abbreviation of Congress of Industrial Organizations. The AFL-CIO began as just the AFL in 1886 as a collection of craft unions representing skilled workers. It expanded to include semiskilled and unskilled workers represented by industrial unions. Differing interests among the two groups lead to a division of the original AFL in 1938 into two separate groups -- the AFL containing craft unions and CIO containing industrial unions. This rift was closed in 1955, when the AFL and CIO merged to form the AFL-CIO.
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FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES Paper currency issued and authorized by the Federal Reserve System and used along with Treasury coins and checkable deposits as the M1 money supply for the U.S. economy. Federal Reserve notes were first issued in 1913 and currently circulate in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. These notes underwent a major redesign to prevent counterfeiting in the 1990s.
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General Electric is the only stock from the original 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining in the current index.
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"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it. " -- Francis Charles Chichester, yachtsman, aviator
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AMEX
American Stock Exchange
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