Connect the Dots 101

Aaron Feuerstein, the Mensch of Malden Mills

Aaron Feuerstein, a Massachusetts industrialist who became a national hero in 1995 when he refused to lay off workers at his textile plant after a catastrophic fire, then spent hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild it, died on Thursday at a hospital in Boston. He was 95. He…immediately reopen[ed] as much of the plant…

Aaron Feuerstein, a Massachusetts industrialist who became a national hero in 1995 when he refused to lay off workers at his textile plant after a catastrophic fire, then spent hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild it, died on Thursday at a hospital in Boston. He was 95.

He…immediately reopen[ed] as much of the plant as he could, replace[d] the buildings he had lost and continue[d] to pay the idled workers for a month — a promise he later extended twice.

www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/business/aaron-feuerstein-dead.html

Leave a comment