#33 Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
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Levi Strauss didn't invent blue jeans, but without him they might never have been more than duck-cloth pants on the rear ends of Nevada's miners and teamsters. He wasn't a teacher, but he gave enough money to a growing university so that its teachers could steer new generations of students towards the future. His vast, dry, good business allowed families in remote locations to have a few comforts in the midst of hardship. Without the gold that the cities passed rested on, its future residents would have had no place to come to.
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