Word: filbertana
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Around Steel's offices there has grown up a fable of Filbertana: he is worth $5,000,000; he has never been wrong, never given a tip; often he locks himself in a hotel room for days working on some gigantic tabulation. In 1881 Bill Filbert started business life in the purchasing department of Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. Later he went to the accounting department, became its chief. He has been with Steel since the late great John Pierpont Morgan organized it in 1901. Comptroller since 1902, a director since 1920, a finance committeeman since 1922, he lives quietly...
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