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Ira L Pitts 1911 - 1990

Ira L Pitts of Detroit, Wayne County, MI was born on April 17, 1911, and died at age 79 years old on October 8, 1990.
Ira L Pitts
Detroit, Wayne County, MI 48238
April 17, 1911
October 8, 1990
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Ira L Pitts' History: 1911 - 1990

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  • 04/17
    1911

    Birthday

    April 17, 1911
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  • 10/8
    1990

    Death

    October 8, 1990
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    Ira L Pitts lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1911, in the year that Ira L Pitts was born, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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In 1947, at the age of 36 years old, Ira was alive when in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.
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