What I Learned from The Quiet Cowboy, The Great Chicago Fire and the Even Greater Recovery and Tim Leuliette Went to Business School... at Ford Motor Company

Dramatic pause, a dramatic pause sees something without seeing anything at all dramatic pause is a go to for broadcasters, presidents and radio voiceovers. It makes you look really smart. Even if you're not feet deserve a go to like that like he do choose life. Comfy good to go to see her in the garage working on your car and you need the valves about last week. You look in the cabinets and on the shelves, but the parts are never in the right place eBay motors as the car parts you need over 122 million of them all in one place and all at the right prices find parts for everything from your classic tube to your brand-new truck@ebaymotors.com. Let's ride Vanguard is owned by your investors so we all said in the same side of the table as an advisor you looking for your clients. We look out for both of you. That's the value of ownership. Visit Vanguard.com and discover ownership from shareholders on the functional Vanguard middle-market Corporation Streeter. This is where you have even this is our American stories. The show where America is the star and the American people we love hearing from you, our listeners send your stories to our American stories.com there are some of our favorites. They were going to hear from author JD winning her will be sharing part of the story he wrote called the quiet cowboy. I met Mr. John is our church quiet fellow set by himself. He would only speak when spoken to and I made it a point to see communities Sunday morning for about a month spent a couple minutes sharing with one morning noticing the brand on the vast he quizzically looked at you got a ranch when I affirmed I indeed had a small ranch. His eyes lit up hard rock convicted never but Como smiling. I replied that that's great Country over there and good hey to with a broad smile looked up my dad and brothers and me worked in the hay fields 14 hours a day go's artwork hard work makes a healthy make almost $30 a day from their rich friendship as Ray grew more comfortable to one another on broadening the last he shared he didn't drive you uncomfortable walking the streets after dark. I promise hearing.

He agreed to join us. When I learned warm and new friend John Litt broke my heart. Seeing prejudice and persecution, displacing, and he was most grateful that a nearby church are being dropped place to sleep, and others shower now and again with no bathroom facilities. In winter, no God placed a burden on the family chart to do more. It took some convincing Mr. John's newest resident at our cross W ranch as I'm getting to know Marantz form and better each day on learning more from him than he has for me with a nod of the said states matter fact burning daylight has access down beside me and thanked himself this fellow doesn't talk much but he sure is a good worker. After early morning chores feeding, watering her checks. He glances my way down the fade in predators and off we go to for Bob in the barn. Following a pat on the head and straighten bogus drugs is time for our breakfast. He forces coffee in science. Heidi will change Mr. John scrambled place the very supplies his usual response all.

Sometimes she'll talk your ear off. I was pretty good there you like to work 100 foot spray day topic dear to myself for son. He is in Brighton remembering a strong work ethic is a young man that same spirit flows doing today different day and season wisdom from a lifetime of lessons.

He's quick to remind wasn't always responsive equipment dear John, because he didn't love working in them AS a one. Then when the lost. They deserve someone more responsible in advocating. I thought I wish we could all be that honest with ourselves.

He's cleaned up the old bunkhouse made himself a great apartment. Mr. John is an answer to prayers to help around the handles. I've never seen the barn, garage, workshop and bunkhouse of sparkling plate. Neither is my Miss Diane, much to my chagrin. Together we tackle all the chores that need doing around the ranch, love his work ethic and attention to detail, can-do attitude is been years since being blessed to work with a self-starter who not only thinks for themselves, but does every task scale, decision and professionalism.

Our cattle and other livestock just doing quickly as he exhibits the same calm, easy-going nature. I handled when I glance over to check on separate task I see a mixture of joy and satisfaction space when were not working. He keeps doing on sunny days.

Findings that now sign this reflecting upon lot and other times finding listening to music. Ms. Bob reviewing the Sunday school lesson.

He wanders out of the barn or pasture to check on afternoon I find them out there from the trade to maverick the visiting donkeys. Such a piece of dining monies outside in God's country as he likes to collect. I can't tell you how many times he is said I never dreamed I could never do this again. When you find them setting along with the animals. He seems to look into the distance, pensive contemplate, as if is reconciling his line. I sometimes wonder if it's thinking about the past, thanking God for the press are wondering about the future. Perhaps it's all those things. John is quick to tell you there's a reason the rearview mirror so small and front wonders being watching him hold a newborn can cradle his head is reaches down and knows what snow softly talk to his gentle soul was on full display serving God's redeeming since higher non-cross.Mr. John is not only made my life easier. He's brought in infectious childlike joy of discovery into our everyday. The way he fusses over missed this time would bandit the cat in her letter kittens. He expresses his gentle heart.

So many wise to see his smile and here's a way when I gave him his own ranch business card and a Pearl are Brendon priceless in his usual laconic manner class. The church in modern recognized Brighton for the brand. Now is a tremendous help to me brings joy in our home and God's blessings keep pouring in. As is often the case, I suppose the mentor can end up being the one who learns about it a beautiful job on the production by Madison Barakat and a special thanks to JD winning her during the story of Mr. John a.k.a. quiet cowboy fella doesn't talk too much. He said of Mr. John sure is a worker by the way, to read more of this story and others go to JD Wenger.com story of the quiet cowboy here on our American story. Our American stories we bring you inspiring stories of history, sports, business, faith and love stories from a great and beautiful country need to be told we can't do it without you are stories are free to listen to with her not free to make if you love are stories in America like we do. Please. Well American stories.com and click the donate button give a little give a lot help us keep the great American stories coming our American stories.com. Millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this@uhcmedicarehealthplans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives. I know everything about running a coffee shop for small business insurance. I need my State Farm agent and company business owners to help the past. State Farm is in your corner and on leg and a neighbor call your local State Farm agent for quote today doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and tedious. There's nothing more daunting than facing piles and piles of laundry that need to be done can be overwhelming for anyone. If you want to get those larger laundry loads down right and get back to your life. Try all free clear maggot packs all three clear mega packs are bigger packs two times the cleaning ingredients compared to a regular pack so that you can tackle any laundry load without the worry free, clear, mega packs are also 100% free of perfumes and dyes and time stamp which is great for any family sensitive skin needs my family.

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The fire itself began in the barn of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary for the scale of Mrs. O'Leary and her existence in the neighborhood.

She was an entrepreneur nor real businesswoman.

There was more than one cow in the bar and she yelled modest but substantial business and the course of amazing is that for years people told the story about her at night milking the cow. The cow kicking over a lantern setting the barn fire and then the high winds and dry conditions: burned down a significant part of the city well. If you have a dairy business yet don't melt your house at night. In fact, usually at the time the fire started and were talking about all. Maybe 8:45 in the evening, you're likely asleep in your house because you have to get up early to melt those cows and again there's multiple cows in the barn so it makes for kind of an interesting ironic thing that poor Mrs. O'Leary gets fingered but where did the fire start, you bet it started in their barn and ironically what didn't burn the great Chicago fire the O'Leary's house.

It made it through just fine but the fire took off on the path that would go to the Northeast, jumps the Chicago River headed right for downtown Chicago which was fairly built-up Metropolis. By 1871 with substantial buildings built out of stone, brick and iron from many people talk about downtown Chicago being largely wooden buildings. That's another myth, needs to get solved.

The buildings of Chicago world's size and substantial architectural character and quality comparable to other cities of that era. When you have the condition of dry conditions, high winds, those stone walls will crumble a dignified front made out of cast iron would melt like butter and it was in the case of one building setting fire to another. It was the case of such an intense heat things would just spontaneously combust.

Let's talk a little Chicago and what caused the fire in terms of Chicago's growth because in 1840 was basically a small Midwestern meeting called the city about the growth the meteoric growth from 1840 to 1870.

That set the conditions under which a fire like this could even happen. 1830 through the 1840s. What was here. Not much effect. If you are here in 1830.

People argue about how many but it might be 50 to 100 people read buildings are just little shacks along this meandering Little River off of Lake Michigan. But it was the perfectly located floppy backwater because as a country, is that that point starting to grow west.

Chicago was the strategic location located on the chain of the Great Lakes six to connect to the waterways of the East and everything and everyone heading west would unfold through Chicago so Chicago is the perfect place for anyone or anything to get anywhere so you go from a mudhole in 1830 with just a handful of people you start to get few thousands of people in the 1840s modest little buildings.

By 1870, you have a major metropolis of over 300,000 people. It becomes a headquarters of commerce and manufacturing. It was a place that when you have the combination of the waterways meeting the rails you could bring raw materials in transforming them into something else with a large labor force and ship them out conveniently anywhere in not only the country but in the world. Let's talk about the night of fire. How long rage how much of the city did consume what the fire spare the evening of the fire on October 8, 1871 was in the center of a really tough drought.

Things were really dry so the fire does break out in the barn of the O'Leary family.

There is some bungling on the part of how the fire was reported that delayed firefighters in getting to the fire to extinguish it. However, the conditions were such that the wooden building is surrounded the O'Leary barn. The high winds and the dry conditions. It probably can be said that the fire was almost unstoppable problem start the fire races through the wooden buildings of this immigrant neighborhood less than 2 miles southwest of downtown Chicago and then carries through incredible wed and all the fire didn't destroy the whole city but it took out its whole central business district heart.

The imposing stone iron and brick buildings of down Chicago were totally consumed. There were wooden details in downtown Chicago.

In terms of ornamental mansard roofs wooden paving blocks, but for the most part the buildings were fairly substantial but the interiors are largely made out of wood. The total heat totally combust the fire starts with say 7:45 in the evening and you have by 1 o'clock in the morning. It is burning downtown Chicago and there is the courthouse right in the central square that is basically in plain cement. It races across the main part of the Chicago River burns out a significant part of the north side of Chicago burning out to almost a triangular wedge that would be on the north side all muscle near with Borton Ave. in Clark Street today but all the city didn't burn the south side of Chicago. That was a difficult part of the city was hardly touched at all. The west side of Chicago, which was also significant part of Chicago was hardly touched at all except for that wedge that burned from the start of the fire at the O'Leary barn and also there were areas of the north side. The farther reaches of the north side into the West didn't burn at all. Chicago was able to recover fairly quickly after the fire because the one thing that the fire could not destroy was Chicago's perfect location that made the city the right to begin with, and you could get anything you wanted to rebuild the city by the same waterways. The frame rail lines coming into the city that could still deliver the goods for the city to thrive and there were substantial parts of the city that were untouched by the fire where the businesses that once had their offices in downtown Chicago could take temporary quarters so you hand businessman who had no elegant offices in downtown Chicago. The rulings were still smoking and they were making arrangements to get quarters and old boarding houses south of downtown Chicago and re-establish their business and get to work rebuilding the destroyed city didn't take long.

Didn't take long.

Indeed, when we come back will find out how this all happened. We continue with Tim Samuelson how Americans sue millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7.

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One of the first buildings built in the downtown area. Downtown was still smoking in the rubble is William Kerfoot who was a real estate man builds a wooden shack. She called the first building in the burned district and he had a cyanotic hand-painted.

That said, all gone but wife, children and energy. That's the Chicago spirit, and it wasn't long before even in the early 1872 months after the fire. New buildings were rising that replaced the old ones.

Ironically, besides on the scale of those buildings wasn't that much different from the ones that were there before but then there's some unusual phenomena. Now people came for the new opportunities after the fire.

Chicago grew in the scale like it had never before. The downtown area, which was largely confined to a small geographic area defined by the features the game. Chicago growth the lake on one side the river onto the side rail yards to the south didn't give a lot of room for development of new office space. Many cities can grow sideways. Chicago couldn't do that. The downtown after the fire was built up with all these elegant floors and five-story building.

They didn't have elevators for the most part, but Chicago was proud of these wonderful second Empire stone from Chicago's reborn talk glowingly of these new buildings that arose in 1872 1873 big depression, and they kept on building but by the 1880s the same buildings that Chicago was so proud of is a symbol of an all new city were too small for all the businesses that wanted to be there the same buildings were being knocked down within 15 years, 15-year-old buildings were being called old and obsolete, and these innovative Chicagoans rated the toolbox of the Industrial Revolution goaded by the real estate people on the landowners to make buildings taller and taking things like metal framing perfecting elevators into these amazing high-speed vehicle of vertical traffic. Chicago creates the skyscraper the first skyscrapers arise in the mid-1880s, the site of buildings that only 50 years before people are so wonderful and modern. So the fire actually set in motion a series of chain reactions that made Chicago not only rebuilt but even regenerate itself over and over again to make it the city that it is today. The population in 1971 was 300,000 jumped to 500,000 in 18 80 x 18 90, Kevin bolted past the 1 million mark triple increase from the great Chicago fire that's it's unimaginable today him that something like this could be done. Nobody could believe the growth of the city and the old studies of the East shook their heads in disbelief and think they would kinda look how to disparage the city of some kind of in the end, looked at things like architecture some kind of law.

Crude kind of work.

It was often a simplified architecture was very direct in expression of material.

This is the birth of modern architecture. It was happening here the birth of the skyscraper happen here. It didn't happen out Easter cities could grow sideways and in population Chicago not only grew in terms of people arriving in Chicago after the fire but it began in the 1880s, to aggressively annex adjoining towns making that part of Chicago itself.

So you have this behemoth of a city in terms of population and growing geographic size by 1890, and much to the surprise and perhaps anger of the old established cities of the East when it was decided to have a world exposition on the event of the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landing in the Americas, cities, Audis thought they had buttoned up who got it.

Chicago and the world's Columbian exposition showed Chicago. Not only is a city that had suddenly grown up in the place of smokestacks dockyards but a city of culture achievement that was there before the world. Indeed, the Chicago school of architecture so much more in our music, read one thing to you a final point and get your reaction is from British novelist and journalist Marianne Hardy and she is an international writer who wrote about the recovery we expected to find traces of ugliness and deformity everywhere.

Crippled buildings and lame limping streets running along forlorn, crooked conditions, waiting for a time to restore their vigor and build up their beauty and new, but Phoenix like the city has risen from the ashes grander and state leader than ever. It's absolutely true that Chicago had reinvented itself and it's unusual to have the center of a large metropolis. Suddenly build a new from scratch all at once. A typical downtown of an American city would consist of buildings of different scale and quality from a long timeline of their history here was something that not only is rising from the ashes. All at once new and modern. But the matter of pride trying to show the world that it was indestructible that there was a quality to these buildings so you looked at it. It wasn't just someplace built out of necessity or makeshift quarters.

These were elegant modern buildings and it occupied the whole of downtown and also of the areas that were in the path of the fire and you been listening to Samuelson is the cultural historian of the city of Chicago. He's right about the quality of the buildings, but all of that and all represent the quality of the people in the quality of those old Midwestern values story of the great Chicago recovery here on our American score is soon millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this UHC Medicare health plan's.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives. I know everything about running a coffee shop business insurance.

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Let me walk you 3040 of these lined up in styling could be as much as changing the color of the grill to a whole car or anything in between. You have five of this nature stay in position and work their way through the process, but you're still senior management. I would sit there and go in to work on Monday and I come home talk Thursday sleep – there was an intense place about 50% of all vice presidents of executive support come through product planning and product planning to set up and walk in his proposals follows the verbal causes actually come across as wire marketing plan to see and that is our competitive reaction. We anticipate approval of your story down there because better be right To be right should be working through that and then let's try to be another set of things to be working so that was driven by business analysis and your ability to present the elevator speech conveying to the executive task objective manner that all the critical factors were present ever. Once this is the little 7374 OPEC one energy crisis. I am over there and powertrain planning is now critical thing. What engines were to use how my commissions with those in and so I'm writing a paper presenting for Henry for the second was the CEO of Ford Motor Company and the son of the Henry Ford and 23.

The paper had to do with overdrive transmission bringing back over to the hole in me is less than 117. You can run very low when you it was $250 million.

I put this thing on three pieces of paper a couple exhibits for said if you're going to spend $250 like to be in one piece.

That was the whole Ford focus is discipline of getting the fluff out and getting to the facts to make a decision quickly filling a piece of paper, follow me throughout the rest of my life and and support of the business school in many respects the philosophy of the concept when you're college. This is the real world where out there trying to understand if gas was not available so cars cast triple price which a bill back when I started was $0.30 a gallon dollar dollar half-gallon back then save today's realtor here.

We were with all that capital investment in big things, heavy cars, big engines, all of us 70 people in the executive management company doing the best we could, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, all fearing bankruptcy thing to do because. And it wasn't it wasn't somebody else's to take care of this problem.

You are now in the position to be part of that group that had to come up with a solution. It was a college test. This was the real thing in your job is and you learn more about corporations large. Now do things on my own tropical things like her daughter with her daughter Stacy's general business and was told no times like that said, how do you know whether you're an entrepreneur you will know some Thursday night when you have payroll on Friday morning at dinnertime on Thursday that you still don't know yet how you covered, but you will figure out a way that's that's that's life, that's that that's that either do it or you can't get into that game and play Henry can't so that's why for such a great program and then the other thing for us, we would have to put babies present these big presentations he would duplicate the number one A-1 B the building we presented them was like a mile and 1/2 from the class, but he would put these two packages in separate cars and they would have separate routes so case one part of the other car would still like to know my whole time afford another car never did make me had to fly plaintiff on March 6 down the road especially could to make sure they were there any way. Backup books will be like I was at a level then the mood in the planning. He knew I was but I wasn't yet a sufficient grade to be able to attend but I have the books for the sum of the my job was taken in their distributed and so the meeting was in styling and I was leaving a guy was driving the car over and as were heading from our building building three over styling was fairly far ahead of ours and Iacocca rule.

That was when he got shot started I was no smoking separate but for the door shut the door shut and he's ahead of us. I got the books for the meeting were try working with traffic. Styling jots up the stairs.

He goes in the room and I get out of her internist to central run as far as I can write having the door and run down the hallway can hear me is about 50 feet in front of me and slows no it's about 5 feet from the door.

He runs in and sit near the hallway knowing that I have probably just lost my career with these two sections will he opened his door looks scared little Iacocca saved Christ.

I took the products of the made for brash. He was loud he was allowed to serve smoking cigars everywhere where you're not supposed to but he saved companies created jobs and products in America, Steve Jobs, is that you probably wanted as a neighbor. We all appreciate what so everyone's got assets and liabilities. But we know no one here's the only perfect person on this planet.

We crucified and we also have baggage including 10 would have an impressive career overseeing the Jeep Cherokee team at 29 years old, bleeding and turning around several different automotive companies is last around with Visteon he save the company from bankruptcy rescue tens of thousands of jobs and quadrupled their stock price to avoid paying him the exit package. She was due. Visteon looked into his life to see if he had any flaws that would let them out of, they found things that it happened before. He had come to faith all the poor but the space in the least. I don't think about. They had motivations for which soft answer to later. But the fact that the slings and sorry for but consider saying that life has changed still probably a one, for which faith is challenged, we will send some worse than others is to come up with fresh Ontario. It's sad in some respects I guess the point is for the people that matter to me in my life.

People know me family friends that I will process to great job on the piece of thanks to Alex and Robbie for the great work and thanks to Tim Juliet sharing his stories about working for legend Tim Juliet story story working fully.

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