So long as predictions remain popular, and are so numerous as they are today – and so long as they receive notoriety through repetition in the press and on the radio – contrary opinions will increase in importance as thinking aids. “
November 11, 2010
In 1930 the global headquarters of Boston-based United Shoe Machinery Corporation was an international colossus. The “Shoe,” as it was affectionately called by Bostonians, was the largest manufacturer of shoe machinery in the world. USM did business in over 50 countries and was truly an international monopoly. The headquarters dwarfed...