Part IV

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4 Period two of U.S.A. Industrialization 1890 to 1920

5 is one of the sometimes mild, sometimes hilarious awareness of something new and vastly rich

6 involved in the ever growing industry.

7 But this period is primarily one in which the growing giant was not led by scientific management but by opinion, often brilliantly shrewd, but nevertheless simply opinion—and wild guessing.

8 The probabilities of good fortune in almost any individual enterprise were exceedingly high, and reputation as a guesser far outranked reputation as a rationalizer.

9 While there were certain exceptions and most important ones, to this guessing and opinion, particularly in the case of Henry Ford, which had their roots in this period, these newer and over-lapping characteristics of industrialization do not float to the top until the end of the period,—a period well named, the Gay Nineties.

10 Contributory items in the Gay Nineties to enrichment of our composite national Kudos (Kudos: an abstract alloy of economic, civil, and cultural abilities, heat-treated by reliable performance) are such superficial yet indicative items as: the exchange of U.S. emissaries with foreign capitals graduating in 1890 from ‘‘ministers’’ to ‘‘ambassadors’’; the Columbian Exposition bringing a WORLD’S FAIR to Chicago in 1893;

11 winning by the U.S.A, of the first reestablished Olympic games in 1896 to lose that title again only once in the nine successive games of the next forty years;

12 The Wright brothers’ invention of the airplane in 1904; the unflagging 70-year yachting supremacy over England,—professional ‘‘Queen of the Sea’’; and in 1908

13 the U.S. being the first of many competing nations to reach the North Pole, a great thermo-dynamic victory for industrial man who thus tentatively extended environment control to the outermost limits of the visible world.

14 Attainment of this geographical absolute (for the South Pole was conquered immediately thereafter) thenceforth caused frontiersmen subconsciously to direct primary discovery effort into the non-sensorial realms of physical phenomena.

15 The vast non-sensorial physical realm was contactable only by the disciplined mind and subject to conquest preeminently by the brain instead of by muscle though requiring even greater fortitude and skill.

16 This epochal trend shift of man was immediately punctuated by the first militant phase of world civil war,—1914--1918, but was not to be recognized tactically by man as a pivotal factor of first magnitude in his history,—equal, for instance, to the invention of the number zero,—until the second militant phase of world civil war,—1937--1940.

17 In this same Gay-nineties economically certifying U.S.A, arrival at international culture parity, seniors of England’s peerage, statecraft, and economic affairs, espoused American beauties—‘‘Gibson girls,’’ and their wealth—Mammoth Store Joe Leiter’s gal became Vicereine of India as Lady Curzon;

18 and Consuelo of the railroads,—Duchess of Marlboro;

19 and Miss Wall Street Zimmerman,—Duchess of Manchester;—belles it is to be noted

20 not from the Royal Feudal ‘‘South’’ but from the hard-boiled industrial North.

21 Suddenly in the 1920 dead end of the ‘‘nineties’’ for the first time in U.S.A, history preponderant immigration ceased and a net population outflow commenced of funded world travelers thus closing the books of ingredient measurement for the new social alloy of high world industrialization brewing in the U.S.A, retort.