This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...plants, comprising 73 blast furnaces, steel works and rolling mills, vast holdings of ore lands, coal and limestone, 112 steamships, and 1,000 miles of railroads. Its productive A Most Interesting Figure in the American Steel and Iron Industries. Author, Orator, Musician--A Genius in Steel. capacity was estimated at 7 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...plants, comprising 73 blast furnaces, steel works and rolling mills, vast holdings of ore lands, coal and limestone, 112 steamships, and 1,000 miles of railroads. Its productive A Most Interesting Figure in the American Steel and Iron Industries. Author, Orator, Musician--A Genius in Steel. capacity was estimated at 7,400,000 tons of pig iron, 9,400,000 tons of steel ingots, and 7,900,000 tons of finished steel per annum. Its board of directors included practically all of the very wealthy men then in the United States, and it had on its hands the biggest problem of industrial operation ever undertaken by any set of men. The Steel Corporation was regarded pessimistically by most of the practical steel men of that time. It was believed to be top-heavy and in the light of our experience and methods of business, most of the independents were much afraid of it. We did not then appreciate the high ideals of the man who first conceived it. Nor did we understand that part of his dream, now realized, was an entirely new principle in business conduct. The idea of co-operation, rather than competition, in business was then untried and most of us thought that it was impractical. We have seen it worked out, and we now know that this idea is basically sound. We have had opportunity to learn by experience that the United States Steel Corporation, managed as it has been, has been a most excellent thing for the iron and steel industries in this country and the world, and, so far as I am aware, there is not an independent steel company which has not benefited by the broad policy it inaugurated and made possible for all of us. The effect of the corporation's activities and its policy has been good from every point of view. It has benefited its workingmen, the public and its s...
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Add this copy of Fifty Years of Iron and Steel to cart. $38.00, good condition, Sold by Tiber Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cockeysville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1920 by The Penton Press, Cleveland.
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Good. An address delivered at the thirteenth general meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 26, 1917, together with additional data concerning the early use of iron and steel, a brief historical reference to the formation and organization of the United States Steel Corporation, and some facts concerning the American steel industry and the world war. Embellished with portraits of men...most distinguished in the development of American iron and steel industries, and interesting reproductions and illustrations depicting the earlier conditions in these industries. 8vo, hardcover, blue cloth, no dj. Ex-Lib of Congress copy, front bookplate & light markings to opening pgs., spine label neatly removed; board edges mildly rubbed, else contents bright & clean, binding tight. 158 p., illus. w/ b&w plates.
Add this copy of Fifty Years of Iron and Steel to cart. $48.00, like new condition, Sold by Robert Campbell Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Montreal, QC, CANADA, published by Cleveland: The Penton Press, 1918..
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First edition. Number 173 of a limited edition of 250 copies. Inscribed and signed by the author on front pastedown. Hardcover. Fine in original publisher's cloth. All edges gilt. As new in very good slipcase. Light wear to ends of slipcase. 114pp. Illustrated.
Add this copy of Fifty Years of Iron and Steel to cart. $54.95, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
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