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The symbols of industrial might—iron, steel, power and energy—come easily to a description of Essington Lewis, perhaps the most formative CEO of BHP, and director-general of munitions and aircraft production during World War II. A personality of immense force, he had a deep and abiding dislike of pretension and publicity, an obsessive regard for order, an impressive ability to focus on end goals while maintaining a grasp of detail and, above all, a driving energy and strength of purpose.
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Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's best-known historians. His many pioneering books include The Tyranny of Distance, The Triumph of the Nomads, The Rush That Never Ended and The Peaks of Lyell.
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- PublisherMelbourne University Publishing
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0522847099
- ISBN 13 9780522847093
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages217
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