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I worked for them, they were making a "one hole set" ,for years in the structural erections this was deemed unacceptable, causing lawsuit's worked for, elevated hydro-storage ,out of ,9th street at Des Moins, the water towers remained strong for some time. Reaganomics's ,steel prices , many other things including workplace injury's caused them to liquidate ,Minneapolis Brown , and ,CB. & I ,,sort of absorbed them. and much of their clientele.

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