Kinley reflected , shaking two helpless fists in the face of Commercialism , That face is set in lines of greed etched in steel , transfixed by a spirit defined by an executive of a giant American steel corporation as quoted by Fortune: Were not in business to make steel , were not in business to build ships , were not in business to erect buildings .. This sentence is hard to understand. A simpler version with equivalent meaning is the following:
Kinley , they just threaten Big Commerce with their fists . This , greedy and ruthless , testifies to a state of mind which the director of a large American steel company , quoted in the magazine Fortune , describes in these terms: We are not in business for to make steel , to build ships or buildings .