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How Timothy Dexter Turned Ridiculous Ventures Into Riches
Investing one’s lifesavings in a venture to export bed warming pans to the Tropics should result in bankruptcy. Somehow, American businessman made a killing off of that. Just as he made a killing off of an even wackier investment, exporting coal to the epicenter of the world’s coal production at the time. Below are twenty ...