Word: fiberboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until he could get going again, such competitors as Robert Gair Co., Seaboard Container and Fiberboard Products offered to help Connelly keep his business by filling his orders. Soon his trucks, which had not been damaged, were picking up boxes made by competitors and stamped with his name, and delivering them to his customers. Connelly found the empty 25-acre plant of a closed down iron foundry just outside the city limits, and bought it for $500,000. Thirteen labor unions got their members to work round the clock to rush it into shape. But he still needed machinery. Machinery...
Baker was "such a persuasive salesman that in 1938, when he wanted to build a $2,000,000 fiberboard plant in Mobile, he simply gave a dinner in Manhattan for the heads of 10 large investment trusts, raised all the money that very evening...