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George W. Jenkins

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George Washington Jenkins Jr. (September 29, 1907 – April 8, 1996) was an American businessman and philanthropist who founded Publix Super Markets. [1]

47 relations: Atlanta, Automated teller machine, Boll weevil, Carol Jenkins Barnett, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, Delicatessen, Electric eye, Entrepreneurship, Florida Institute of Technology, Florida land boom of the 1920s, Florida Southern College, Food Marketing Institute, Gainesville, Florida, General store, George W. Jenkins High School, Georgia Institute of Technology, Great Depression, Great Floridians, Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Howard Jenkins, Junior Achievement, Lakeland, Florida, Lawton Chiles, March of Dimes, Methodism, One-upmanship, Pharmacy, Piggly Wiggly, Publix, Real estate bubble, RP Funding Center, Sarasota, Florida, Special Olympics, St. Petersburg, Florida, Stetson University, Stock, Tampa, Florida, The Saturday Evening Post, U.S. Business Hall of Fame, United Way of America, University of Tampa, Wall Street Crash of 1929, Warm Springs, Georgia, Winter Haven, Florida, 1,000,000,000, 1926 Miami hurricane, 1928 Okeechobee hurricane.

Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Automated teller machine

An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, transfer funds, or obtaining account information, at any time and without the need for direct interaction with bank staff.

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Boll weevil

The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is a beetle which feeds on cotton buds and flowers.

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Carol Jenkins Barnett

Carol Jenkins Barnett (born September 30, 1956) is an American philanthropist and businesswoman, the daughter of George W. Jenkins, the founder of Publix Super Markets.

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Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN Hospitals) (French: Réseau Enfants-Santé (RES)) is a North American non-profit organization that raises funds for children's hospitals, medical research, and community awareness of children's health issues.

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Delicatessen

A delicatessen or deli is a retail establishment that sells a selection of unusual or foreign prepared foods.

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Electric eye

An electric eye is a photodetector used for detecting obstruction of a light beam.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

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Florida Institute of Technology

The Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech or FIT) is a private nonprofit doctoral/research university in Melbourne, Florida.

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Florida land boom of the 1920s

The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida's first real estate bubble, which burst in 1925, leaving behind entire new cities and the remains of failed development projects such as Aladdin City in south Miami-Dade County, Miami's Isola di Lolando in north Biscayne Bay, or Boca Raton as Addison Mizner planned it to be.

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Florida Southern College

Florida Southern College (Florida Southern, Southern or FSC) is a private college in Lakeland, Florida.

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Food Marketing Institute

The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) is an American food marketing organization that conducts food safety, public affairs, education, research, and industry relations programs for food retailers and wholesalers.

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Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

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General store

A general store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer or village shop) is a rural or small town store that carries a general line of merchandise.

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George W. Jenkins High School

George W. Jenkins High School serves Lakeland, Florida, a city with a population of 94,000 and a surrounding community of more than 600,000.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Great Floridians

Great Floridian is a title bestowed upon citizens in the state of Florida by the Florida Department of State.

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Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans

The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans is a nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Virginia, that was founded in 1947 to honor the achievements of outstanding Americans who have succeeded in spite of adversity and to emphasize the importance of higher education.

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Howard Jenkins

Howard Jenkins (born 1952/53) is an American billionaire businessman, the son of George W. Jenkins, the founder of Publix Super Markets, and its chairman and CEO from 1990 to 2001.

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Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement (also JA or JA Worldwide) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane.

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Lakeland, Florida

Lakeland is a city in Polk County, Florida, along Interstate 4 east of Tampa.

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Lawton Chiles

Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida.

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March of Dimes

March of Dimes is a United States nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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One-upmanship

One-upmanship is the art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.

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Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the science and technique of preparing and dispensing drugs.

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Piggly Wiggly

Piggly Wiggly is an American supermarket chain operating in the Southern and Midwestern regions of the United States, run by Piggly Wiggly, LLC, an affiliate of C&S Wholesale Grocers.

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Publix

Publix Super Markets, Inc., commonly known as Publix, is an employee-owned, American supermarket chain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida.

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Real estate bubble

A real estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global real estate markets, and typically follow a land boom.

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RP Funding Center

The RP Funding Center (originally Lakeland Civic Center, and later The Lakeland Center) is a convention and entertainment complex in Lakeland, Florida, comprising a convention center, arena and theater.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Special Olympics

The Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to 5 million athletes and Unified States Sports partners in 172 countries.

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St. Petersburg, Florida

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Stetson University

Stetson University is a private, nonprofit university with four colleges and schools located across the I-4 corridor in Central Florida, United States, with the primary undergraduate campus located in DeLand.

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Stock

The stock (also capital stock) of a corporation is constituted of the equity stock of its owners.

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Tampa, Florida

Tampa is a major city in, and the county seat of, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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U.S. Business Hall of Fame

Junior Achievement's U.S. Business Hall of Fame was established in 1975, as the result of an idea by Willard F. Rockwell, Jr.

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United Way of America

United Way of America (now United Way Worldwide) based in Alexandria, Virginia, is a nonprofit organization that works with almost 1,200 local United Way offices throughout the country in a coalition of charitable organizations to pool efforts in fundraising and support.

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University of Tampa

The University of Tampa (UT) is a private co-educational university in Downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929

The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday (October 29), the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929 ("Black Thursday"), and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its after effects.

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Warm Springs, Georgia

Warm Springs is a city in Meriwether County, Georgia, United States.

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Winter Haven, Florida

Winter Haven is a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.

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1,000,000,000

1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or milliard, yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.

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1926 Miami hurricane

The 1926 Miami hurricane, commonly called the "Great Miami" hurricane, was a large and intense tropical cyclone that devastated the Greater Miami area and caused extensive damage in the Bahamas and the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 1926, accruing a US$100 million damage toll that would be the second costliest in U.S. history when adjusted using inflation, population, and wealth normalization, yielding a cost of nearly US$196 billion.

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1928 Okeechobee hurricane

The Okeechobee hurricane, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic basin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Jenkins

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