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Protection Wire Plant Shifts After Wars in Kansas
In Protection Kansas the Lane Myers plant, unique since 1951 for producing concertina barbed wire for the U S Army, expanded during the Vietnam era and then retrenched to peacetime products. Workers from nearby towns fed a local payroll while freight savings ended government contracts. The owners adapted, retiring from a wartime rush to a calmer postwar pace and finding relief in life beyond boom cycles.
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