I tried explaining who Thurber was to an associate the other day, it was
a lost cause, and by the way..........nice quote.

 

 

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In his article "New York in the Third Winter" in the January 1932 issue
of Fortune magazine, James Thurber wrote: "During the boom, the sound of
the riveter was loud in the city. Now it is so quiet you can hear a
girder fall for miles away."





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