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#61 Malcom McLean: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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McLean's Downfall
Malcolm McLean's rise began when he learned that a trucker earned $5 for bringing the station's oil from Fayetteville, which was 28 miles away. A local man agreed to sell McLean a used dump truck on installments of $3 a week. With that truck, McLean won a contract to haul dirt for a federal public works program. By 1940, as preparation for war revived the economy, the six year old McLean trucking owned 30 trucks and grossed $230,000.
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