Question
During World War II, a factory in this city attached steel ropes to gas balloons to create a net to prevent Japanese fighter planes from going on bombing runs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this first planned industrial city in India. After World War I, Viceroy Chelmsford praised this city for supplying steel to the British war effort and renamed the city after its founder.
ANSWER: Jamshedpur [accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, Tatanagar]
[10m] This steel tycoon and “Father of Indian Industry” founded and is now the namesake of Jamshedpur. He was inspired to found the city after seeing a lecture in which Thomas Carlyle said, “The nation which gains control of iron soon acquires the control of gold.”
ANSWER: Jamsetji Tata
[10e] In a sign of the overall direction of the Indian economy, Tata Steel was recently surpassed as the most profitable Tata company by one offering this sort of product, often contrasted with goods.
ANSWER: services [accept consulting services or Tata Consultancy Services; prompt on consulting]
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