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Let's Talk About The Pullman Strike, Knob-Gobblers

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Only Thing Isn't Working

The city of Chicago was raised by as much as 14 feet in the mid 1800s. Some firms worked together to determine who got which bids and maximize their profitability. "It also provided the fact that they're lifting the entire city up six feet by the height of a dude," he says.

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