The Marlin Steel Wire Products factory in Baltimore is part of a network of small businesses that are vital to the U.S. and it's economy.
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"Small businesses have become a bellwether for the condition of the American economy. Indeed, to hear politicians talk, small business is�pick your favorite clich�the lifeblood, the backbone, the thunderously beating heart of the American economy.
Like most clich�s, these have some truth. America could truly not survive without operations like Marlin Steel Wire Products. Among other things, they produce specialized parts like that stand, in small production runs that would be uneconomical on the scale of an airplane or automobile plant. Even mighty industrial machines cannot survive without tiny cogs."
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