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Money Starts Talking
The Scooperdome went up in the winter of 1993. It was a glowing tent as large as a football field and as tall as an eight-story building. It made a huge bright spot in the subarctic gloom of St. Albans, Vermont, a hard-bitten village where one of the big employers was a state prison. Underneath the dome, dozens of construction workers prepared the foundation for an ice cream plant that promised two hundred new full-time jobs.
The employees of Ben & Jerry’s could hardly wait. After eight years of hard, constant use, the Waterbury factory and its employees were badly in need of relief. Since 1989, some of the company’s ice cream had been made at a Dreyer’s plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana; more recently, the company had rented ...
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