California Story: A Serial Memoir and Social History

California Story: A Serial Memoir and Social History

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California Story: A Serial Memoir and Social History
California Story: A Serial Memoir and Social History
Chapter 16: Long Beach Memorial Hospital, 1977

Chapter 16: Long Beach Memorial Hospital, 1977

Scale up or die.

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California Story: A Serial Memoir and Social History
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Chapter 16: Long Beach Memorial Hospital, 1977
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With the two big vacuum furnaces humming and The Company now toeing into international markets, my Dad, Burt, no longer thought of his business as the small-time foundry up on Cherry Avenue. To survive against global players, he needed to compete at a whole different level.

It was scale-up or die.

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