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In 1955 the single-handed country doctor was the whole of medicine for a great many townships. He saw patients in a room at the front of his own…
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In 1968 a Top 40 disc jockey ran a radio station almost single-handed for four hours at a stretch: cueing every record by hand on two turntables, firing…
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In 1965 a commercial fishing crew went to sea in a wooden boat, paid by a share of whatever they caught, with no survival suits, no catch limit,…
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In 1965 a large shipyard employed thousands of people who mostly walked to work, assembled a hull outdoors plate by plate on an open berth, worked at eighty…
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Offshore oil in 1975 was a young industry expanding at extraordinary speed, operating on rules borrowed from onshore drilling and from shipping, with accommodation bolted to the same…
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In the ceiling of a fire station in Livermore, California, there is a hand-blown light bulb that has been switched on, with brief interruptions, since 1901. It has…