"Carnegie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unexpectedly raised to some eminence by a conservative English journal which was clamoring for increased naval expenditure; and once discovered, he found himself not without honor in his own country, for he was assailed from the platform of Carnegie Hall by the advocates of a gentle life, and in Congress his work was used as a text-book by those who were fighting for a larger military establishment. The Morgen-Anzeiger, in Berlin, printed a translation with the purpose of ...
— David Malcolm • Nelson Lloyd
... neighborhood. The farthest western reach of the telegraph lines in 1847 was Pittsburg, with three-ply iron wire mounted on square glass insulators with a little wooden pentroof for protection. In that office, where Andrew Carnegie was a messenger boy, the magnets in use to receive the signals sent with the aid of powerful nitric-acid batteries weighed as much as seventy-five pounds apiece. But the business was fortunately small at the outset, until ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... laughed, "when we get back to New York you put in a claim for a Carnegie medal for me! It would look fine on the front of me hat." "I'll have Ned make you a medal out of a ...
— Boy Scouts in a Submarine • G. Harvey Ralphson
... there from here," Milton said when they reached the sidewalk, and he led the way across town toward Carnegie Hall. ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... Michigan, the coal and coke industries of Pennsylvania, lime-stone quarries, smelters, converters, rolling-mills, railroad connections and selling organizations all unite into the Cambria Steel Company or the Carnegie Steel Company. Timber tracts, ore properties, mills, mines and selling agencies join to form the International ...
— The Next Step - A Plan for Economic World Federation • Scott Nearing
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