Word: tasco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tasco Inc., a Shell Rock, Iowa, builder of hog barns, grew rapidly during the 1970s and saw its employment rolls swell...
Last year the cost of carrying Tasco's debt load escalated as the company frantically borrowed money from one lender in order to pay off another. At the same time Tasco's hard-pressed farmer customers, equally strapped for cash, began to postpone building plans and cancel orders for hog sheds. With debts of $8.5 million and assets of only $1.2 million, the company filed for bankruptcy last spring and is now in receivership...
Buckley was arguably the game's top quarterback, outshining teammate Rich Tasco of Drake (all run and no pass) and the Gray's Joe "747" Adams of Tennessee State (much-heralded but abysmal in this contest) and Jay Venuto of Wake Forest (who led a last-gasp rally but failed to produce the crucial two-point conversion in the clutch...