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TIL Albert Kahn was an industrial architect working out of Detroit. In 1937 he designed 19% of all factories built that year. He opened an architectural school in Russia. In 1941 he received the eighth highest salary in the USA, $486,936. His last building was the Willow Run bomber plant.

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