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Office-Interiors Firm Works to Salvage Landmark Waterloo, Iowa, Office.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003

By Pat Kinney, Waterloo Courier, Iowa Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 16--WATERLOO, Iowa--John Rath. Rube Rath. A.D. Donnell. Harry Slife. Emmet McGuire. Lyle Taylor.

They were just some of the occupants of the classy-looking walnut-walled corner office of the old building at Sycamore and Division streets.

Their business --- once the city's largest employer, one of the eight largest meatpackers in the world --- is gone.

But the office --- the office of the president of The Rath Packing Co. --- will live on.

A local office interiors company, Techline Studios, is salvaging the old Rath's president's office for potential reconstruction at another location for any interested client.

"We'd like to save a...

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