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The Rise of the Beef Trust and Its Chicago Power
A historical account tracing Gustavus Swift Philip Armour and the Cudahy brothers from small farmers to leaders of a vast beef packing empire. It covers refrigerator cars ownership, rail rebates, and the expanding reach over cattle hogs and farm products, plus the influence on railroads and prices nationwide.
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Stockbridge
N. Y
Barnstable
Mass
Callan
County Kilkenny
Ireland
Beef Trust
Chicago
Gustavus F. Swift
Philip D.armour
Michael Cudahy
Standard Oil
Philip D. Armour
Nelson Morris
George H. Hammond
Cudahy Brothers
California
South
New York State
Texas
Colorado
Cuba
United States
Standard Oil Company
United States Supreme Court
Grosseup
Europe
St. Paul
Kansas City
St. Joseph
St. Louis
Gustavus Swift
J. Ogden Armour
America
Swift, Armour
Sandwich
New England
Brighton
Watertown
Albany
Clinton
Massachusetts
Milwaukee
Horace Greeley
Railroads
Wall Street
Swift & Co. Corporation
Armours
Louis F. Swift
Herman O. Armour
Joseph F. Armour
Philip
Philip D
Patrick Cudahy
Plankington & Armour
P. D. Armour
Cudahy
Armour & Co
Armour
Cudahy Packing Company
Gusatayus Swift
Swifts
Edward C. Swift
L. F. Swift
Commerce
Garfield
Congress
Railroad
Boston
Michigan Avenue
Oconomowoc
Wis
Combine
Swift & CO
Gamal Feidu
Canital
Nelson Morris & CO
Seeits
Cudahy & CO. Capital
Unnes
Eee
Hammond & Co
Omaha Packing Company
Addi
Fowler & Son Packing Co
Anglo-American Provision Company
Swift Be Ems
Soy Énérgia Er
Swift
Morris
Tiffany
East
Canada
Interstate Commerce Reports
Fruit Trust
Tennessee
Consignee
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Omaha
Missouri River
Chicago Livestock and Packing Business
Armours- Swifts-Cudahys
California Fruit Transportation Company
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