Riggio, Leonard
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Leonard Riggio has been influential in making Barnes and Noble Inc the leading retail bookseller in the US. Riggio began his career in bookselling in the 1960s during his college days. He purchased Barnes and Noble Bookstore in 1971.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1998
Behavior, Booksellers, Bookstores, Chief executive officers, Barnes & Noble Inc., BKS, Riggio, Leonard
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1998
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Scheele, Leonard Andrew
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Leonard A. Scheele died on Jan 8, 1993. Scheele was the Surgeon General from 1948 and 1958 and supervised the production and distribution of the first polio vaccine. He later became an executive of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1993
Pharmaceutical preparations, Chewing gum, Obituary, Pharmaceutical industry, Warner-Lambert Co., United States. Department of Health and Human Services, Scheele, Leonard A.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1993
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