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Entrepreneur from North Dakota made a fortune in international business and gave a lot of it to UND Did You Know That concludes the story of Ken Hyslop, who helped turn around a struggling company that eventually made the first self-propelled combine. Written By: Curt Eriksmoen | ×
Ken Hyslop as seen in the 1906 University of North Dakota yearbook. Special to The Forum
One of the biggest financial turnarounds in American industry during the 1930s and ‘40s occurred under the leadership of a man from Inkster, N.D.
During the five years prior to Ken Hyslop being named president of the U.S. division of Massey-Harris (MH) in 1938, MH sustained an annual deficit of $4 million dollars. In 1939, Hyslop’s first full year as president, MH again became a profitable company with sales of $21 million, and annual sales climbed to over $100 million by 1945.
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