Jan Antonín Baťa stayed in the Americas from 1939 – 1940, but when America entered the war, he felt it would be safer for his co-workers and their families back in occupied Czechoslovakia if he left the United States.

The company was founded in 1894 in Zlín ( then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today in the Czech Republic ) by Tomáš Baťa (), whose family had been cobblers for generations.

In 2002, the headquarters was moved to Lausanne, Switzerland and the organisation has been led by Thomas G. Bata, grandson of Tomáš Baťa.

Apart from shoes, Baťa also diversified into other areas ( tyres, toys, plastic fibres, etc.

Jan Antonin was forced to flee from Czechoslovakia after the invasion by the Nazis, Tomas ' son Thomas manager of the buying department of the English Bata Company was unable to return again until after the war when the Baťa company was nationalized.

Tomáš Baťa established the organization in Zlín on 24 August 1894 with 800 Austrian gulden, some $ 320, inherited from his mother.

He graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the Baťa company.

* Partizánske was established in 1938 – 1939, when Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia ( now Czech Republic ) and his powerful network of companies built a shoe factory in the cadastral area of Šimonovany municipality.

* Svit was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia ( now Czech Republic ) in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers.

Tomáš Baťa was recognised for his social consciousness: he established housing, cinemas and advancement programmes for his employees.

In 1932, at the age of 56, Tomáš died in a plane crash at Zlín Airport ( attempting to take off under bad weather conditions ) and his half-brother Jan Antonín Baťa became head of the company.

At the time of Tomáš's death, the Baťa company employed 16, 560 people, maintained 1, 645 shops and 25 enterprises.

The total international contribution to the Baťa organisation at the time of Tomas's death consisted of 20 international enterprises, 132 shops and 790 employees.

Under Jan Antonín Baťa the company grew quickly and continued its expansion throughout Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.

Jan Baťa expanded the Bohemian and Moravian part of the business, more than doubling its size to 38, 000 employees, 2, 200 shops and 70 enterprises.

In the face of a worldwide depression, Jan Baťa, following the plans laid down by Tomas Baťa before his death, expanded the company to more than six times its previous size throughout Czechoslovakia and the world.

From his brother's death in 1932, to 1942, he grew the Baťa organisation to 105, 770 employees.

Company policy initiated under Tomas Baťa was to set up villages around the factories for the workers and to supply schools and welfare.

Jan Antonín Baťa then spent a short time in jail, but was then able to leave the country with his family.

After the Second World War, the Bata Shoe Organisation was led by Thomas J. Bata ( Tomáš Baťa Junior ), son of Tomáš Baťa and the company grew significantly under Thomas J. Bata's driving leadership.

After the " Velvet Revolution " in November 1989, Thomas J. Baťa arrived as soon as December 1989.

His darkness device Ebenuscrux took the shape of a prototypical circuit cross, the symbol of the realm's strange version of Catholicism.

A psychiatric assessment of her character noted that she " was seen as a prototypical narcissistic person by the raters: on average, she satisfied 8 of 9 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder ... had she been evaluated for personality disorders, she would receive a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.

The prototypical H < sub > 2 </ sub > antagonist was cimetidine, developed by Smith, Kline & French ( now GlaxoSmithKline ) in the mid-to-late 1960s and first marketed in 1976 ; sold under the trade name Tagamet, cimetidine would later become the first ever blockbuster drug.

Algerian legend claims that the ancestors of the present Maltese, together with the first Algerians, fled from their original homeland of Aram, with some choosing to settle in Malta and others in North Africa, which would suggest that the prototypical Maltese culture had Aramaean origins.

To save the white protagonist, however, he would do anything, including sacrificing himself, as Sidney Poitier does in The Defiant Ones, the prototypical Magical Negro movie.

Therefore, they discounted the possibilities of either two radical cations reacting with each other, or two radicals reacting with each other, “ because the chloride ions at the surface of the crystal would prevent the radical cations or radicals from assuming positions suitable for dimerization .” Second, using 3-methylthiophene as a prototypical monomer, they performed quantum mechanical calculations to determine the energies and the total atomic charges on the carbon atoms of the four possible polymerization species ( neutral 3-methylthiophene, the radical cation, the radical on carbon 2, and the radical on carbon 5 ).

Using English bookbinding terms, a tankōbon of prototypical size would be called quarto or octavo.

Exemplars: When asked to name a few exemplars, the more prototypical items came up more frequently.

Nikola Tesla in his later years conceptualized a so-called " death ray " ( a directed energy weapon ) and was sensationalized in the media, notably the New York Times and the New York Sun, as a prototypical mad scientist for it.

In theory, this means that the rich people have access to highly inefficient technologies, medical treatments, and therapies ( that are prototypical in nature ) while the poor get access to these same products when they become more efficient and easier to manufacture several years down the road.

All of these features could be found on North German organs prior to Schnitger's activity ; Schnitger's genius lay in his ability to synthesize these elements into a prototypical style of organ building, and in his prolific output.

Nicknamed " Super Joe ", he was the prototypical utility player who could play any position on the field well.

In many language descriptions, particularly those of traditional European linguistics, the term tense is erroneously used to refer to categories that do not have time reference as their prototypical use, but rather are grammaticalisations of mood / modality ( e. g. uncertainty, possibility, evidentiality ) or aspect ( e. g. frequency, completion, duration ).

Rule-based systems view the world in terms of attribute-object-value triples and the rules of plausible inference that connect them, while frames have us thinking in terms of prototypical objects.

Social psychologists have sought to model the manner in which the human mind categorizes social stimuli ( Self-categorization theory is a prototypical example ).

PPV and its soluble derivatives have similarly emerged as the prototypical electroluminescent semiconducting polymers.

Notice again that this is probably not a fact about mass-count syntax, but about prototypical examples, since many singular count nouns have referents whose proper parts can be described by the same term.

Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas — have dominated American comic books and crossed over into other media.

Many receptor enzymes have closely related structure and receptor tyrosine kinase activity, and it is said by Lehninger ( 2008 ) that the foundational or prototypical receptor enzyme, is insulin.

Lakoff wrote Moral Politics soon after the Republican Party's " Contract With America " takeover of Congress under the Clinton presidency, and his usage of the terms " liberal " and " conservative " is strongly resembles how those labels might have been used in the 1994 elections, the former having much to do with the Democratic party and the latter with the Republican party ; indeed, chapter 9, " Moral Categories in Politics ", presents Hillary Clinton as a prototypical " liberal " and Newt Gingrich as a prototypical " conservative ".

LPRA Headquarters ( and other landmarks ) of this prototypical post-war suburb of sometimes mythic importance have been the focus of historic preservation efforts.

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker notes that the phrase may have originated from this practice, as at this time " cutting off someone's nose was the prototypical act of spite.

The following articulations have either been described as labialization, or been found as allophonic realizations of prototypical labialization:

Subsequent commentators have identified this individual as the prototypical Faustus of the legend.

Dixon thus provides a data-driven account of the prototypical ‘ more compact ’ and ‘ less compact ’ causatives ( though noting that these prototypes are somewhat artificial, chiefly in that many causative constructions in the languages surveyed involve only some subset of the criteria above ), and calls for broader typological surveys to test his model — a call which I have taken into account when selecting the languages for my preliminary survey.

Poly ( p-phenylene vinylene ) ( PPV ) and its soluble derivatives have emerged as the prototypical electroluminescent semiconducting polymers.

Video games have frequently touched the subject, with the Wing Commander franchise serving as a prototypical example.

Thus, a category like may have a prototypical member, but no cognitive visual representation.

oNeTrak also allows for more prototypical operations as trains on a single track main often have to meet and / or pass each other during operation of the layout.

Several critics have hailed it as a turning point in the author's career, and others have called it a prototypical naturalist text.

Prototype theories, investigated by Eleanor Rosch, have given some reason to suppose that many natural lexical category structures are graded, i. e., they have prototypical members that are considered to be " better fit " the category than other examples.

While many subsequent film adaptations ( notably the 1931 movie Frankenstein and the Hammer Films series starring Peter Cushing ) have portrayed Frankenstein as the prototypical " mad scientist ", the novel portrayed him as a tragic figure.