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U. S. Steel Plants Completed, Nature Transformed, 1908, U.S. Steel had transformed not only the natural environment; the hegemony that the corporation achieved gave these industries unprecedented access to natural resources, production capabilities and development, and to national markets. Nature, as well as the structure of the American economy, was transformed. Source: Graham Taylor, Satellite Cities: A Study of Industrial Suburbs (1915).

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