id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3037 Hendrick, Burton Jesse The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry .txt text/plain 38060 1725 61 farmers, city artisans, and industrious, independent business men, and steel factories of New York State and Pennsylvania. years before the war, the new agricultural machinery had made no great of Cleveland; two years afterward this new Standard Oil Company had new company men having great financial standing--Amasa Stone, Benjamin The Standard Oil Company of New Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, these same men naturally continued new areas, but other great companies also took part in the development. among railroad men to practical use in the steel business. As a young man, entirely new to the steel industry, he telephone business--at one time seemed likely to force the Bell Company Engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the man The new telephone company offered him $10,000 a year as organized, in 1881, the American Bell Telephone Company, a corporation the American Telephone and Telegraph Company took over the business and ./cache/3037.txt ./txt/3037.txt