12-10-2010, 11:39 AM
In the late '80's, when the economy was just a bit unsteady, and Burroughs Corp. (mainframe computers) bought Sperry Corp. (mainframe computers) in a hostile take-over (they billed it as a merger to the outside world but it wasn't,) and it became Unisys (and all the former Sperry people got laid off,) I worked for a couple of years for my little brother's sales rep organization. My territory was the state of Maryland and The District. We rep'ed for eleven different companies, mostly connectors, cable (copper and fiberoptic) as well as industrial process control electronics enclosures.
Domino Sugar in Ball'merr was one of my customers. The operation is HUGE!!!!! On my initial visit as the new sales rep, I was given the "$50 tour" ... I saw more stuff than I can remember! But the one thing that still sticks in my mind is that huge structure (I think it was that big white "whale"-looking thing) that was FULL of sugar! The sugar was in piles that were easily two stories tall and it was being moved around by the most huge, spotless, yellow front end loader I have ever seen! The bucket had to be twenty to twenty-five feet wide and maybe ten feet tall! The wheels were easily eight or ten feet in diameter!
I remember almost nothing else about the facility, other than it was right there in the harbor, (a very cool place, Ball'merr Harbor,) and those huge piles of sugar with that clean front-end loader (and its driver in sanitary coveralls, "footies" and a hair net.
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I wish I could remember more about the facility ... but ...
Domino Sugar in Ball'merr was one of my customers. The operation is HUGE!!!!! On my initial visit as the new sales rep, I was given the "$50 tour" ... I saw more stuff than I can remember! But the one thing that still sticks in my mind is that huge structure (I think it was that big white "whale"-looking thing) that was FULL of sugar! The sugar was in piles that were easily two stories tall and it was being moved around by the most huge, spotless, yellow front end loader I have ever seen! The bucket had to be twenty to twenty-five feet wide and maybe ten feet tall! The wheels were easily eight or ten feet in diameter!
I remember almost nothing else about the facility, other than it was right there in the harbor, (a very cool place, Ball'merr Harbor,) and those huge piles of sugar with that clean front-end loader (and its driver in sanitary coveralls, "footies" and a hair net.
)I wish I could remember more about the facility ... but ...
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln