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America’s real comparative advantage is its workers of all stripes—everywhere from factory floors to drilling rigs, corporate cubicles to garage startups—who devise new ways of doing business.

Early offices were designed to centralize access to the explosion of paper documents from thriving industries like insurance, and to enable the supervision of workers, much like factories did for industrial labor.

Built by Canada’s Neo Performance Materials and financed in part by the European Union, the factory is expected to begin commercial deliveries to companies including the German car-parts supplier Robert Bosch next year.

Tampa drew fame for its cigar factories and Cuban sandwiches.

James Harris Simons was born in 1938 to the manager of a shoe factory in Brookline, Mass. His parents weren’t wealthy, but they were ambitious for their son.