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    Andrew Carnegie's Success

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    cars on trains, Carnegie invested $217.50, which he obtained through a…

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    Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie’s life embodies the true American rags to riches story. Andrew Carnegie was the son of a man with many struggles to find jobs. Due to his father’s struggles, Andrew Carnegie began to work at many different jobs; he worked in two factories before he found a stable job at a railroad company. Andrew Carnegie rose through the ranks at the company until becoming the secretary for the superintendent. His many trips to England brought his eye to steel which would later…

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    Carnegie: Robber Baron and Captain of Industry On November 25, 1835, Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland to a poor family. When he was 13, his family moved to the U.S. As a young child, he went to go work at a railroad as a assistant and a messenger for Tom Scott, one of the owners on the railroad. On a quest to build a bridge across the mississippi, he came upon a new steel refining process. After taking many loans, and using most of his money, he build a new factory using this new process,…

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    nothing! We are aware that the Carnegie steel Corporation has a high profit. It is unclear why they are cutting our wages and I feel they are trying to destroy us by giving little wages. Carnegie Steel proposed an 18% wage reduction as part of a new pay scale. I disagree with that assessment because that is still not enough to help feed our family. In fact, I feel that is another way of taking advantage of your employee. The contract employees had pressured the company to sign in 1889 was set to…

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    the presence of business visionaries like Andrew Carnegie were equally important in the overarching success of the American Industrial Revolution. Andrew Carnegie’s ability to vertically and horizontally integrate his businesses made him indispensable in the narrative of American industrialization. In his historical biography, Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business, Andrew Livesay recognizes that without Andrew Carnegie’s trailblazing…

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    Mitttal Steel Case Study

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    Growth of Mittal Steel Edwin Romero Ashford University BUS616 International Business Dr. Johnny Vanneste November 10, 2014 Abstract In today’s world for a company to be able to grow and compete on a level higher than its competitor’s it must eventually seek to move outward into new markets. This growth will not only assist the company in its need for expansion but it can also be beneficial to the local communities the organization moves into by providing jobs and other economical…

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    In episode 2 of the series The Men That Built America the main business man was Andrew Carnegie. The episode pertained to Andrew’s life and how he became wealthy and powerful. In the episode Andrew was shown to be mentored by Scott. Scott took an interest in Andrew and mentored him until eventually Andrew took over Scott's business. Then one of Andrew's first challenge was to build a railroad bridge stretching over the Mississippi river from St. Louis toward Illinois. When Confronted with task…

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    Andrew Carnegie was very important in the mid 1800s. He made one of the most famous bridges that opened on July 4th 1874 and it is still opened and in use today. Andrew Carnegie was a Captain of Industry. Andrew Carnegie had began manufacturing the St. Louis Bridge in February 1868. His mentor, Tom Scott, had told him that it would be much faster to go strait across the Mississippi River instead of going around it in order to get supplies and merchandise back and forth. He found this to be a…

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    as well as the government which allowed companies to grow, while making money from the land-use for track. Grants of land and cash stimulated the railroad across the west. This allowed…

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    Hardness Test Lab Report

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    experiment are listed below, 1. Cobalt Alloy 80.0-116 2. Copper-Cobalt-Beryllium alloy, UNS C17500 98.0-103 3. Stainless Steel 37.0-130 4. Beryllium Copper, UNS C17000, TD04 Temper Strip 96.0-102 5. Medium Carbon Steel 71.0-112 6. AlSl 800 Steel 102 7. Tungsten Alloy 32.0-110 8. Silver Alloy 35.0-102 9. Materion Brush 60 ¾ HT 98.0-103 10. Chromium-Copper UNS C17600…

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