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A 3 page book review that discusses a 2006 Hershey biography by Michael D'Antonio, who begins his account of the extraordinary life of American chocolate magnate Milton S. Hershey by describing events that occurred 60 years after Hershey's death in 2002. In doing so, D'Antonio underscores the fact that Hershey had a tremendous economic impact on his employees, which continues to this day. D'Antonio's genial look at Hershey demonstrates that capitalism can be successfully combined with accomplishing social goals. No additional sources cited.
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death in 2002. In doing so, DAntonio underscores the fact that Hershey had a tremendous economic impact on his employees, which continues to this day. DAntonios genial look at Hershey
demonstrates that capitalism can be successfully combined with accomplishing social goals. The furor that occurred in 2002 was over the trustees of the Milton Hershey School deciding to diversify
the schools portfolio and sell its Hershey stock to the highest bidder. This move met with intense opposition from the people of Hershey, Pennsylvania who feared that a new owner
for the company would move the candy-making business elsewhere and put the majority of the towns population out of work. Eventually, the trustees relented, but the incident serves to illustrate
how the Hershey company, the town and the school that Milton Hershey founded remain intertwined. Hershey was the first American enterprise to offer milk chocolate candy, which had previously
only been produced in Europe. He copied European candy-making techniques, but he was also an innovator and developed a manufacturing process that resulted in a distinctive milk chocolate bar that
had a long shelf-life and could be stored for months without spoiling. Due to this feature, the US government included Hershey bars in G.I. rations during World War II, earning
the company extraordinary profits. However, by this point, the success of the company was an American legacy. By the early 1890s, Hershey employed 1400 employees in three factories and
by 1896, the switch had been made from caramels to chocolate being the companys prime focus. Hershey did more than copy European candy-making techniques. He also copied the social ideals
of Britains leading chocolate company, Cadbury, whose Quaker owners built a model town for their employees. Likewise, Hershey created the model company town in the early 1900s. Hershey, Pennsylvania
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