The Boston Globe, January 13th, 1994
Procter & Gamble Co. is expected to close a soap and chemical plant in Quincy that employs about 330 workers and pumps millions of dollars into the area's economy, Quincy officials said yesterday. After an intensive lobbying effort by city, state and federal officials to save the 53-year-old plant by the Fore River, the Cincinnati-based conglomerate will announce its fate as early as today. "It's bad news for us locally, but it's also bad news for Massachusetts, for New England, for the country," said Mayor Jim Sheets. "It's the continuing loss of industrial jobs and the terrible impact it has...
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