In The Fiction Factory, Quentin Reynolds' history of Street & Smith, Reynolds asserts that the magazine was the brainchild of Ormond G. Smith, one of the publishers, but pulp historian Will Murray regards this as unlikely to be the full story, given that Reynolds' book was written almost forty years later and was an "approved" history.
Honoring the factory's history while nurturing one of the country's largest Arts and Cultural organizations, Arts Quest (which debuted in April 2012), entwined amid rusted out 230 ft. high smelters and abandoned industrial buildings on what is known as the "Steel Stack Campus," became a way to bring economic development to the area.
If he hates it I'm going to have to go back and work in a fish factory.'" History records that the fish factory wasn't necessary, but it must have been tough.
It's certainly the most powerful factory audio in history.
THE GENIUS FACTORY: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, by David Plotz.
"Prohibition," the latest story from the history factory of filmmaker Ken Burns, is set to run on PBS stations in October.
"The new guys are more bottom-line oriented, without much attachment to the factory or its history," he said.
Soul-Searching After Disaster As the Pakistani police investigate one of the deadliest factory fires in history, the Western certifying bodies are engaged in intensive soul-searching.
A handful of companies offer corporate archival services or corporate history-writing -- History Associates in Rockville, Md., and the History Factory in Chantilly, Va., are two examples.
Bruce Weindruch, founder of The History Factory, a "heritage management" firm that helps companies to document and exploit their past, says that his firm is growing by 30-40% annually.Some companies are more creative in their use of history than others.
