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an American revolution in wire drawing 8
A brief story, reprinted from the October 1982 issue of Wire Rope News, relays the early developments and improvements in the annealing and wire drawing process.

Opening a rigging shop in the badlands 12
Why would anybody want to start a rigging shop in the sparsely populated wilds of North Dakota? One good reason is the booming oil and gas business.

Workers comp: Correcting billing errors can reduce your premiums 24
Spotting and correcting common billing errors can make it possible to shave some dollars from those ever rising premiums.

The luckiest man in the world 32
This is the way Steve Cook describes himself, but it took more than luck to make his Mile High Rigging the successful business it is today.

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