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Very good. A city literally built on jobs and beer. <br /> <br />The big whoosing sound is jobs going overseas in the name of the dollar. The rest could not afford the products on today's wages if we kept making widgets at a American factory. <br /> <br />I used to run beer. You had to be bright eyed and sharp. Ready to go once your 5th wheel clanged onto that trailer. You would have about 700 miles and just enough time to do it in. No stopping because they need that beer unless it was a sunday. <br /> <br />I am willing to bet that beer trailers did not go by train. The loads of beer had to be accompanied by paperwork related to the transport of Alcohol across state lines or even inside the same state. I dont think they would take the trouble to ship it by rail. <br /> <br />In Baltimore, we had the Seagrams House. Whiskey. Alcohol was brought in on ships from the UK and under extreme control and supervision every drop got transferred to the distillery. They would pack a container with cases upon cases on the glass bottled stuff. Two drivers always went with the load so that no one would be tempted to crack a case. Driving one of these had more liquid by weight than the rig itself so it would "slosh" on you if you shifted it badly. <br /> <br />If there was a way to make digital work for the nation as our workers made the factories run the USA, I would be for it.
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