The acquisition included control of two plants--one in Chicago and the other in Brooklyn, New York--marking the first time Courier operated printing operations outside of its home base in Lowell. Courier gained the unofficial title of Printer by Appointment to the Insurance Industry....
By this time manufacturing was accounting for only ten percent of the parent company's revenue. In that year an accident at the Carlstadt plant released a yellow dye used in Clairol hair coloring (a Bristol-Myers Squibb brand) into the neighborhood. This substance was not toxic, but it ...