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199. The Wealthiest People in History! (English Vocabulary Lesson)

Thinking in English

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Andrew Carnegie Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermland, Scotland. He moved with his family to the USA in 1848 at the age of 13. His income tax return in 1918 was equivalent to 2% of US economic output,. In 2014 that would be around $350 billion. But he did not come from royalty, or from a rich family, or from high education. He went from working in cotton mills and on the railroad to owning the largest steel company in the world.

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