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This person held a namesake series of illegal price-fixing “dinners” in New York. Stalin’s plan to “catch and overtake” a place named for this American (15[1])is documented in a Stephen Kotkin book. This man ineffectively tried to end (15[1])convict leasing in the Alabama mines he acquired as chairman of a company that merged with TCI to stave off the Panic of 1907. This man names a (-5[1])platoon-based “plan” for “work-study-play” education created by John Dewey’s disciple William Wirt. This former (*) judge’s “federal” company became part of a firm (-5[1])helmed by Charles Schwab after a 1901 merger planned by J. P. Morgan. The Jackson 5’s first record label was based in a “city of the century” (-5[1])named for this man, which inspired the Soviet city of (10[1])Magnitogorsk (10[4])before (10[1])becoming a classic example of urban decay (10[1])in the Rust (10[1])Belt. (10[1])For 10 points, what co-founder of U.S. Steel names a city in northwest (10[1])Indiana? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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