The sound of the trains was the sound of prosperity, men working and supporting their families.”
Newcomers to Texas complain about the smell of the refineries. We tell them it’s the smell of money flowing into the economy.
I was born and grew up in a house on the banks of the Tittabawassee River, about six miles upstream from the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan. I can remember mornings when the smell of the Dow Chemical Plant was strong enough that you could almost believe that you had to take a bite out of the air and chew it just to breathe. When it was like that, my dad, who was employed as a pipefitter at Dow, used to like to say to those who complained about the odor, "Smells like money to me ..."