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COPYRIGHT 1991 Business History Review
The Spirit of Enterprise: The History of Pacific Enterprises from 1886 to 1989. By Douglas R. Littlefield and Tanis C. Thorne * Los Angeles, Calif.: Pacific Enterprises, 1990. ix + 198 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $20.00.
Pacific Enterprises, a Los Angeles-based holding company, has played a major role in the development of southern California for over a century. Established in San Francisco as a small-scale operator on the fringes of the natural gas business, Pacific shifted the focus of its operations to the Los Angeles area in 1889, and since then the growth...
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