https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/08/how-singer-won-the-sewing-machine-war/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:11:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/08/how-singer-won-the-sewing-machine-war/comment-page-1/#comment-326977 Mon, 24 Aug 2015 01:11:56 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=54839#comment-326977 The Smithsonian article mentioned that a Singer skyscraper was for some years prominent as an NYC landmark, and that Singer was one of the first modern international firms.
During the Soviet era, a prominent building on Nevski Prospekt in Peterburg/Leningrad was topped by a statue of Atlas carrying the World. It housed the principal bookstore. Before the Revolution, however, it would have been known to young Alisa Rozenbaum as the Singer building, topped by a statue of capitalism and technology triumphant. Was it just coincidence that Atlas would later figure in the title of her best-known book?

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