Nearly 100 people visited West Overton Museums near Scottdale on Saturday afternoon to hear author Les Standiford discuss his book "Meet You In Hell," a nonfiction work about the lives of early steel, coal and coke industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. The lecture was the culminating event of several months of reading and discussion of the book by a number of patrons at 13 Westmoreland County libraries.
Introduction. I. Germany Ground Zero. A. Assembling the Subsequent Tribunals. B. Bonds with the IMT?. C. Hitler's Tires and Gas: I.G. Farben. 1. Auschwitz. 2. Monowitz. II. The Case in Nuremberg. A. Crimes Against Peace. B. Plunder and Spoliation. C. Slave Labor. III. The Verdict. A. Conspiracy of Predators. B. Hebert's Lonely Voice: Farben's Directors and Slave Labor. C. American Leniency Against Industrialists. D. A Prosecutorial Mistake?. Conclusion.
The Derby Historical Society will honor two prominent Valley business leaders during its annual Thanksgiving reception at 5 p.m. Monday at Grassy Hill Lodge. William C. Bassett and John A. Frey will be presented with the Dr. John I. Howe Award, said society Executive Director Robert Novak. They are being honored for their lifetimes of service to the Valley community. Both men are (a part) of the Valley's industrial heritage," Novak said. "We are calling attention to the fact that the Valley's history is one of heavy manufacturing that employed many, many people.
Governor Christie will not release every detail on his out-of- state schedule because he doesn't want reporters barging into his "zone of privacy," like family vacations. But Christie knows it's not his Family Guy role that has him again defending his travel plans. It's his below-the-radar visits to political sugar daddies, the donors and kingmakers that can steer millions of dollars into the state GOP coffers and choreograph his ascendancy to the national stage, like his two, pay-homage trips to David and Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialists, climate change deniers and nurturers of Tea Party extremism.
IN 1899, early industrialists built a hydroelectric power station at Glen Ferris on the Kanawha River. It powered metals production and beginning in the 1930s, the streetlights in the town. The plant also provided the village with filtered water. And almost incredibly, it did all that on an essentially uninterrupted basis for all these many decades.
Sometimes you say to yourself, "What could they be thinking? This is America." Well, this might be your America, but it sure isn't Mitch McConnell's or the Republican Senate leadership's America. If Mitch McConnell were a general in the U.S. Army, he would sacrifice the lives of 200,000 Americans to save the lives and well- being of a handful of industrialists.
BRUSSELS, December 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will spur an increase in mutual Russian-European investment, and European companies should look East to the Russian market for new sources of growth. These were key themes addressed by Kirill Dmitriev, Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, in remarks delivered at the EU-Russia Industrialists Roundatable today. The Roundtable was held as part of the EU-Russia Summit in Brussels.
.... Equally important, the industrialists, like the "feudals," are by their very nature an a...
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