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The Rise of Big Business – Chapter 4L2
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Entrepreneur: Andrew Carnegie Steel business Pittsburg, PA Controlled all of the steps of the steel-making process “Do not make riches, but usefulness, your first aim.”
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Entrepreneur: John D. Rockefeller One 42-gallon barrel of oil creates 19.4 gallons of gasoline. The rest (over half) is used to make things like: perfumes, insecticides, dice, sweaters, ballpoint pens, paint, footballs, dresses, roofing, umbrellas, shoe polish, hair coloring, lipstick, trash bags…. 6000 different items! Refine oil; turn it into useful products Standard Oil Company Monopoly – company that controls an entire industry so that there is no competition
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Entrepreneurs: William Randolph Hearst Newspaper Madame C.J. Walker Shampoo George Westinghouse Alternating Current J. P. Morgan Banker
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Economics - Manufacture, Distribution, and Consumption of Goods and Services Free Enterprise Consumer Producer Resources: human – people capital – tools, money natural – things found in nature
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