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requests to reprint the speech. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation
asked permission to reproduce the speech “for internal distribution
to supervisory personnel.” The company explained, “We feel that this
material is very much in line with some of the economic principles we
have been disseminating.” 7
Businessmen were attracted both to the content of Rand’s ideas and
their unifi cation into a cohesive, integrated whole. One executive told
the management of his company that Rand could help them “probe
deeper into the philosophic and economic causes of the decline of freedom.
. . . Miss Rand explains completely the inseparability of right moral
action, private property, free economic activity and rational action. Each
is proven to be inextricably woven into the others. And as one reads and
grasps the proofs she offers as the absolute, and always superiority of
a free society, he begins to see why so many of our efforts to thwart
collectivism, welfare ism, etc., fail so miserably.” 8 Rand offered both an
explanation for any antibusiness sentiment and an action plan for the
future. This combination bowled over Clement Williamson, president
of Sealol Incorporated in Providence, Rhode Island, who told her, “after
years of trying to arouse business leaders to conviction and action in the
fi eld of government and politics, I feel that I now have the key which
will eventually unlock the tremendous potential available in this group.
Nowhere in my literature researching have I found the one answer
except in this philosophy of yours.” 9 Rand’s readers felt that she had
penetrated to the root causes of the regulatory and social environment
that bedeviled them.
In Rand business had found a champion, a voice that could articulate
its claim to prominence in American life. Invitations to symposia and
conferences began to stream in. Rand was recruited to speak at a meeting
of the National Industrial Council on the “Ethics of Capitalism,”
and three times presented at the week-long seminar of the President’s
Professional Association, an organization affi liated with the American
Management Association. Two professors at the Columbia Business
School excerpted Atlas Shrugged in a textbook and invited her to address
a course on the conceptual and institutional foundations of modern
business. Business could even offer Rand an intellectual platform of
sorts. The Atlantic Economic Review, published by a Georgia business
school, invited Rand to contribute to a symposium on The Organization
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