#284 Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick

One of America's wealthiest men. His holdings value and more. than a hundred billion dollars in today's dollars. Sat up in his sick bed. In his Manhattan home.

And called to one of his caregivers for a pen and paper. Andrew Carnegie. Eighty three. Once the mightiest industrialist in all the world was now an influenza ravaged man.

He took up his pen and began to write as if possessed. When he was finished. He summoned to his chambers his longtime personal secretary James Bridge. Take this to Frick, Carnegie said.

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