"The Chief Business of America is Business"
Great Innovators
The Material World
Places to Know
Words to Grow On
100

This is a business that makes a product or offers a service that can be sold to people.

Industry

100

He bottled food, most famously ketchup.

Henry J. Heinz

100

This is made out of soft coal and sand.

Glass

100

This was and still is a large cement producer.

The Lehigh Valley

100

This means to combine.

To merge.

200

This is an industry in which a small amount of goods are sold directly to consumers.

Retail

200

He founded one of the earliest department stores.

John Wanamaker

200

This is stronger and lighter than iron, and doesn't rust.

Aluminum 

200

Milton Hershey first opened a candy shop here.

Philadelphia

200

This is a new item, idea or way of doing things.

Innovation

300

Something that makes money after expenses have been paid is this.

Profitable

300

He started one of the first discount stores.  Mr. P. liked to hide in the coat rack here.

F. W. Woolworth

300

This is produced by blowing cold air through melted iron.

Steel

300

This is a city known for Steel.

Pittsburgh

300

This is the effort to help people improve their lives.

Philanthropy

400

This is a group or company that has control over a product and its price.

Monopoly

400

He created a candy company after failing twice before.

Milton Hershey
400

This is made out of water, sand, limestone, and smaller stones.

Concrete

400

George Westinghouse set up a generator here.

Pittsburgh

400

These are people who become successful at starting new industries.

Innovators

500

He was a famous businessman near Pittsburgh.

Andrew Carnegie

500

He invented both a power generator for electric lights, and airbrakes to stop a train.

George Westinghouse

500

This is only made out of limestone.

Cement

500

Elihu Thompson developed a lighting system here.

Philadelphia

500

This is a country with many colonies and places under its control.

Empire