Word: edinburg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of U.S. firms making hardware for the Pentagon has plummeted from 120,000 to only 40,000. The new defense cuts will almost certainly drive thousands more out of the military- supply business. "You bet we are concerned!" says Bill Barth, president of Right Away Foods, an Edinburg, Texas, packer of C rations, which relies on the Pentagon for 95% of its revenues. Barth, whose staff of 700 employees assembles 3.1 million cases of dehydrated field rations a year, says he is banking on projections that the sharp reductions in active-duty personnel will be offset by stepped...