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Arundel Cotter. United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul
United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul
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UNITED STATES STEEL
PROLOGUE. THE MAN AT THE HELM
CHAPTER I. THE WHY AND HOW OF THE BIG COMPANY
CHAPTER II. THE BIRTH OF THE BIG COMPANY
CHAPTER III. EARLY HISTORY AND GROWTH—1901 TO 1907
CHAPTER IV. THE TENNESSEE PURCHASE
CHAPTER V. MEN WHO MADE UNITED STATES STEEL
Elbert H. Gary
John Pierpont Morgan
Charles M. Schwab
George W. Perkins
Other “Men of the Corporation”
CHAPTER VI. DEVELOPING WORLD MARKETS
CHAPTER VII. THE SPIRIT OF THE CORPORATION
CHAPTER VIII. THE CORPORATION’S IMPLEMENTS
CHAPTER IX. THE STEEL TOWNS
CHAPTER X. HUMANIZING INDUSTRY
CHAPTER XI. INVESTIGATIONS AND DISSOLUTION SUIT
CHAPTER XII. QUESTIONS OF POLICY
CHAPTER XIII. STEEL FROM THE INVESTOR’S VIEWPOINT
CHAPTER XIV. THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE
CHAPTER XV. HELPING UNCLE SAM WIN THE WAR
CHAPTER XVI. THE MIDDLE PERIOD—1907–1914
CHAPTER XVII. THE WAR AND AFTER
APPENDIX. Comparative Production
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Arundel Cotter
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Among the Carnegie partners was a young man, Charles M. Schwab, president of the Carnegie Steel Company. Schwab not only represented the top notch of efficiency as a steel maker, a salesman, and an executive, but he had a veritable tongue of gold. To listen to him was to be converted to his views; he could talk the legs off the proverbial brass pot. And Carnegie saw that if the man lived who could convince Morgan to finance a purchase of the Carnegie Steel Company that man was “Charlie” Schwab. Carnegie therefore decided to bring together the financier and the president of the Carnegie Steel Company and to let loose on Morgan the flood of Schwab’s eloquence.
On the night of December 12, 1900, Edward Simmons and Charles Stuart Smith, both close friends of Carnegie, gave a dinner to which Morgan was invited. And to Schwab was assigned the duty of making the speech of the evening. Ostensibly the dinner was merely a social affair with no ulterior motive, but in the light of subsequent events it may be considered certain that it was arranged at the suggestion of Carnegie, and that its purpose was the sale of his properties to Morgan.
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