Download or read book Faith, Hope, and $5,000 written by Dan J. Forrestal and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1977 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing historical account is wonderfully anecdotal and alive with the trials as well as the triumphs of a $4 billion multinational company. Tracing it from its founding in 1901 for the purpose of making saccharin - in the days when the synthetic sweetener was a German monopoly - the book reveals how the Germans tried to force founder John F. Queeny out of business, and how the company grew after World War I under the leaderhsip of Edgar Monstanto Queeny, the founder's son.