The Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company: A Romance of Millions

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Aldine Book Company, 1903 - 369 páginas
 

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Página 362 - It was the most masterly piece of diplomacy in the history of American industry, and formed a fitting climax to Andrew Carnegie's romantic business career. The further story of the merger has been told a hundred times and need not be repeated here. The part of the Carnegies in it is indicated in the following letter to stockholders, now first published : THE CARNEGIE COMPANY Offices; Carnegie Building, Pittsburg, Pa., <.)th March, 1901.
Página 342 - Managers; and the party of the second part has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above given.
Página 340 - Limited, and in consideration of the sum of One Dollar in hand paid by the party of the first part, the receipt whereof...
Página 314 - We can sell at this price and ship abroad so as to net us $16 at works for foreign business, nearly as good as home business has been. What Is true of rails Is equally true of other steel products. As a result of this, we are going to control the steel business of the world.
Página 145 - ... becomes perfectly fluid, and even rises so much above the melting-point as to admit of its being poured from the converter into a founder's ladle, and from thence to be transferred to several successive moulds.
Página 85 - The minutest details of cost of materials and labor in every department appeared from day to day and week to week in the accounts; and soon every man about the place was made to realize it. The men felt and often remarked that the eyes of the company were always on them through the...
Página 145 - The air, expanding in volume, divides itself into globules, or bursts violently upwards, carrying with it some hundred weight of fluid metal, which again falls into the boiling mass below. Every part of the apparatus trembles under the violent agitation thus produced. A roaring flame rushes from the mouth of the vessel ; and, as the process advances, it changes its violet colour...
Página 325 - Creek; that he had agreed to pay market price, although he had his doubts as to whether I had any right, while Chairman of the Board of Managers of the Carnegie Steel Company to make such a purchase. He knows how I became interested in that land, because I told him, in your presence, the other day.
Página 100 - We are creatures of the tariff (meaning the steel people), and if ever the steel manufacturers here attempt to control or have any general understanding among them the tariff would not exist one session of Congress. The theory of protection Is that home competition will soon reduce the price of the product, so that It will yield only the usual profit. Any understanding among us would simply attempt to defeat this. There never has been and never will be such an understanding.
Página 324 - ... than it is in Coke, insist on fixing the price which the Steel Company should pay for their coke? The Frick Coke Company has always been used as a convenience. The records will show that its credit has always been largely used for the Steel Company, and is to-day, to the extent of at least $6,000,000. The value of our coke properties, for over a year, has been, at every opportunity, depreciated by Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Lauder, and I submit that it is not unreasonable that I have considerable feeling...

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