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John D. Rockefeller went into business when he was 20, and he picked up his first oil well as a sideline. He soon saw that that was the right horse to ride. Even before automobiles and airplanes laid their heavy claim on oil, it'd begun replacing coal in the power industries.
Andrew Carnegie makes the better hero. He, after all, was part and parcel of the emerging technologies that made our country. And his giving sprang from some deep-seated core of principle. Yet the Rockefeller clan assumed the mantle of public service. They've become political leaders and professional givers -- one died doing anthropological research in New Guinea.
The Anaconda was General Scott's devise plan at the beginning of the civil war, It was greatly opposed by the press and General McClellan, they thought it was really slow and ponderous. In spring 1861 people thought it would be a short and glorious war, therefore, reducing the long-term Anaconda plan of slowly squeezing the life out of the Confederacy like an anaconda. However, they discovered that it wouldn't be a short war and the union had to follow a plan which was similar to the Anaconda.
