Adam Smith famously used a pin factory to illustrate the advantages of specialization, choosing this "very trifling manufacture" because the different tasks were performed under one roof: "One man ...

SHELTON — State environmental officials are sampling debris from the massive fire that tore through two vacant structures — one of which was the historic Star Pin building — on Canal Street on ...

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