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Eighty Years to the Last Booth
Eighty Years to the Last Booth

Season 1 Episode 26273

A sheet metal shop that started out making window frames in Oakland, California ended up building more than 600,000 of the phone booths that once lin…

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The Bottle That Changed Every Bottle
The Bottle That Changed Every Bottle

Season 1 Episode 26272

(Content note: this episode discusses a historical event involving the death of a child and other family members.)

A 12-year-old girl took one Tylenol…

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A Mess That Became Medicine
A Mess That Became Medicine

Season 1 Episode 26271

Alexander Fleming almost threw the dish away. On September 28, 1928, the London bacteriologist returned from a two week vacation to find a stray mold…

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Business Blooper:  The Machine That Was Supposed to Replace the Car
Business Blooper: The Machine That Was Supposed to Replace the Car

Season 1 Episode 26268

Some inventions fail loudly. This one just quietly disappeared into tour groups and mall cops.

On December 3, 2001, inventor Dean Kamen unveiled the S…

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Eighteen Thousand Dollars in a Hotel Room
Eighteen Thousand Dollars in a Hotel Room

Season 1 Episode 26267

Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler had already turned down a bond salesman's strange proposals more than once by the time the man show…

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The Speech That Rewrote Political Crisis Management
The Speech That Rewrote Political Crisis Management

Season 1 Episode 26266

Minutes before he walked on set, his own party's staff told him it wouldn't matter how well he did. He went on television anyway.

On September 23, 195…

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The Coffee Shop That Built the American Business Women's Association
The Coffee Shop That Built the American Business Women's Association

Season 1 Episode 26265

Some of the most lasting institutions start with the smallest possible meeting.

On September 22, 1949, Kansas City businessman Hilary Bufton Jr. sat d…

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The Gamble That Learned to Fly
The Gamble That Learned to Fly

Season 1 Episode 26264

A financial gamble that nearly cost a company its independence ended up producing one of the most enduring aircraft in aviation history. On September…

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Business Blooper:  Buried by a Bonding Rule
Business Blooper: Buried by a Bonding Rule

Season 1 Episode 26261

Some empires don't collapse from a bad product. They collapse from a rule nobody read closely enough.

Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ray Loew…

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When Fans Renamed A Spacecraft
When Fans Renamed A Spacecraft

Season 1 Episode 26260

NASA wanted to name its first space shuttle Constitution. A woman who'd already saved a canceled TV show with 116,000 letters got a phone call asking…

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