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Author:

Kawa, Katie, author.

Title:

Milton Hershey and the chocolate industry / Katie Kawa.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

PowerKids Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Hershey, Milton Snavely,--1857-1945--Juvenile literature.
Businessmen--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Chocolate industry--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Hershey Foods Corporation--History--Juvenile literature.
Hershey (Pa.)--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Hershey (Pa.)--Economic conditions--Juvenile literature.
Hershey, Milton Snavely,--1857-1945.
Businesspeople.
Chocolate industry--History.
Hershey Foods Corporation--History.
Hershey (Pa.)--Biography.
Hershey (Pa.)--Economic conditions.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

A sweet story -- Growing up in Pennsylvania -- Hershey keeps trying -- The Lancaster Caramel Company -- From caramels to chocolates -- Making milk chocolate -- Hershey's chocolate factory -- Mass production changes the game -- A company town -- More thanjust chocolate -- Starting a school -- Hershey's on the rise -- A lasting legacy.

Summary:

Profiles the life and achievements of the entrepreneur and philanthropist who revolutionized the chocolate industry by mass producing milk chocolate bars, and whose legacy lives on in the community he built around his factory.

Series:

Great entrepreneurs in U.S. history

ISBN:

1499421370 : LIB
9781499421378 : LIB

LCCN:

2016016332

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)

AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)

JNPC081 -- Leonard A. Good Community Library (Ogden)