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Founders Notes: Andrew Carnegie

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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie ...my father... He was... ...began making tablecloths... ...double-entry bookkeeping. I had at that time... I had left school forever... Nothing stranger ever came out... Nothing is impossible to genius! [Here the manuscript ends abruptly.] ...trade grew worse and worse in Dunfermline... My uncle, like all our family, was a... ...it. I did not spend my extra dimes... This was in 1852. NOTE He is now 17 Consternation followed and the threatened strike was broken. Mr. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio. She was my best friend, because my severest critic. I would organize a company to build iron bridges. Until militarism is subordinated, there can be no World Peace. York. I shall remember that check as long as I live... ...we were prepared to underwrite. We were as proud of our bridges... Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick David Senra ...we were taught that idleness was disgraceful... NOTE Winston Churchill agreed — and chastised his son for his idle life

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie ...my father... He was... ...began making tablecloths... ...double-entry bookkeeping. I had at that time... I had left school forever... Nothing stranger ever came out... Nothing is impossible to genius! [Here the manuscript ends abruptly.] ...trade grew worse and worse in Dunfermline... My uncle, like all our family, was a... ...it. I did not spend my extra dimes... This was in 1852. NOTE He is now 17 Consternation followed and the threatened strike was broken. Mr. Garrett, president of the…

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