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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The Evergreen Review first published Rechy’s and Selby’s writing; and Olympia Press’ Travelers Companion series published Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and The Ticket that Exploded, William Talsman’s The Gaudy Image, and Parker Tyler and Charles Henri Ford’s notorious underground classic The Young and the Evil, as well as Jean Cocteau’s The White Paper, O
... See moreRichard Amory • Song of the Loon (Little Sister's Classics)
International Time Recording Company, which manufactured time clocks for recording workers’ hours; Computing Scale Company, which produced retail weighing scales; and Bundy Manufacturing, which produced key-actuated time clocks and also owned prime real estate in Endicott, New York. Flint rolled these diverse businesses into the Computing-Tabulatin
... See moreClyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
This Society of Guardians was not the only credit bureau—thousands of similar small organizations were formed over the years, collecting individual names and publishing books with various comments and gossip. Modern giants Experian and Equifax grew from these small, local bureaus.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Like any other intelligent businessman, Hill saw cutthroat competition as wasteful and as something to be ended. “Combination,” therefore, was natural and necessary—“merely an incident on the road to efficient service.” The only losers in the process were middlemen, who made no real contribution anyhow, and inefficient competitors, who were doomed
... See moreMichael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
People v. Shannon
This rags-to-riches tale fails to do justice to McLean’s immense ambition. By 1935, at twenty-two years of age and with just one year of experience as a trucker, McLean owned 2 trucks and 1 tractor trailer, employed nine drivers who owned their own rigs, and had already hauled steel drums from North Carolina to New Jersey and cotton yarn to mills i
... See moreMarc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
The extraordinary productivity at Carnegie plants put them in a different class from their competition. During a rail price war in 1897 Carnegie Steel pushed the other companies to the wall by driving rail prices from a previous low of $28 a ton to only $18, and at one point to an almost unimaginable $14. The chief executive of Illinois Steel, its
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