Arthur Gell
person
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Jun
↑1 vs the 6 months before
Company secretary who ordered the molasses shipment
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentTim HarfordCautionary Tales with Tim Harford · Treacle Tears: The Boston Molasses Disaster · 40:22 · 26 Jun
…Arthur Gell, who oversaw the tank's rapid construction, was a skilled administrator, but he wasn't an engineer.…
ElenaMorbid · Boston’s Great Molasses Flood of 1919 · 13:11 · Mar 2025
…Yeah, they got to get out. But the company, you know, determined that if they could distill a sufficient amount of alcohol in the first quarter, they would have enough time to get it bottled and shipped out before prohibition went into effect, thereby saving the company. That November, USIA's company secretary, Arthur Gell, placed a large order for molasses…
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