Glenn Loury
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railroad tracks running alongside huge rolls of printing paper, these monstrous machines, which were the presses, craftsmen everywhere from the people who ran the presses to the people who engraved the plates to the people who They cultivated the photographs that had to be made into images. They printed Time magazine, Life magazine, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek. They printed telephone books.
railroad tracks running alongside huge rolls of printing paper, these monstrous machines, which were the presses, craftsmen everywhere from the people who ran the presses to the people who engraved the plates to the people who They cultivated the photographs that had to be made into images. They printed Time magazine, Life magazine, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek. They printed telephone books.
They printed Sears catalogs. And it was a massive operation.
They printed Sears catalogs. And it was a massive operation.
They printed Sears catalogs. And it was a massive operation.
Yes, it was a dozen buildings or so spread out over a mile along the lakefront, maybe three quarters of a mile. Is it still there? I think it's condos now. Of course it is. And in fact, the guys that, you know, the union guys who I worked with, I wasn't in the union, I was a clerk. could see it coming. They could see the jobs going to South Carolina and then going to Southeast Asia.
Yes, it was a dozen buildings or so spread out over a mile along the lakefront, maybe three quarters of a mile. Is it still there? I think it's condos now. Of course it is. And in fact, the guys that, you know, the union guys who I worked with, I wasn't in the union, I was a clerk. could see it coming. They could see the jobs going to South Carolina and then going to Southeast Asia.
Yes, it was a dozen buildings or so spread out over a mile along the lakefront, maybe three quarters of a mile. Is it still there? I think it's condos now. Of course it is. And in fact, the guys that, you know, the union guys who I worked with, I wasn't in the union, I was a clerk. could see it coming. They could see the jobs going to South Carolina and then going to Southeast Asia.
They didn't see the technology revolution coming that made a lot of what they were doing obsolete, but they knew that their days were numbered.
They didn't see the technology revolution coming that made a lot of what they were doing obsolete, but they knew that their days were numbered.
They didn't see the technology revolution coming that made a lot of what they were doing obsolete, but they knew that their days were numbered.
Were they mad about it? Uh, yeah. Uh, and to a certain extent resigned, uh, but you know, the fight, the good fight, you know, resist, but the wheel was turning. Amazing.
Were they mad about it? Uh, yeah. Uh, and to a certain extent resigned, uh, but you know, the fight, the good fight, you know, resist, but the wheel was turning. Amazing.
Were they mad about it? Uh, yeah. Uh, and to a certain extent resigned, uh, but you know, the fight, the good fight, you know, resist, but the wheel was turning. Amazing.
Now, I talk about this in my memoir that came out last year, Late Admissions, Confessions of a Black Conservative. I review the bidding of my life. And yeah, I tell a story. So I'm at the community college before getting to Northwestern. The year is 1970, the spring of 1970, the strike, the incursion into Cambodia and the strike. Yes. And I'm taking calculus and I'm loving it.
Now, I talk about this in my memoir that came out last year, Late Admissions, Confessions of a Black Conservative. I review the bidding of my life. And yeah, I tell a story. So I'm at the community college before getting to Northwestern. The year is 1970, the spring of 1970, the strike, the incursion into Cambodia and the strike. Yes. And I'm taking calculus and I'm loving it.
Now, I talk about this in my memoir that came out last year, Late Admissions, Confessions of a Black Conservative. I review the bidding of my life. And yeah, I tell a story. So I'm at the community college before getting to Northwestern. The year is 1970, the spring of 1970, the strike, the incursion into Cambodia and the strike. Yes. And I'm taking calculus and I'm loving it.
And there's an exam coming. You loved calculus? Pardon? I loved calculus. Yeah, I was a math major and calculus and trigonometry and abstract algebra and differential equations.
And there's an exam coming. You loved calculus? Pardon? I loved calculus. Yeah, I was a math major and calculus and trigonometry and abstract algebra and differential equations.
And there's an exam coming. You loved calculus? Pardon? I loved calculus. Yeah, I was a math major and calculus and trigonometry and abstract algebra and differential equations.