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The Man Who Built IBM's Buildings
George F Johnson was already the industrial king of the region this is he is a company close to where um IBM's some IBM's buildings are. Watson was a recently fired executive facing a jail term and running a company that as Johnson would later say he's describing what the condition of CTR when it collapsed. He put everyone on a first name basis a stark contrast to the era's accepted business formality in an age of carpet baggers and all powerful business barons.