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By Garrison Keillor | April 23, 2009
I am a poor, wayfaring stranger traveling through this world of woe, but it's OK, I am well paid for the woe and I enjoy watching my fellow wayfarers, the road guys, the men who fly from town to town, talking on their cell phones, hustling software and industrial carpeting, advising companies on branding issues, guys with pagers, laptops, BlackBerries and voices like drill bits. Road guys tend to be a little grim, which you would be too if you were trying to peddle your widgets these days.
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December 23, 2008
Sprint this week started making available in stores the first 3G/4G dual-mode device, which operates on both the Sprint 3G and 4G networks. Sprint launched its 4G service in Baltimore in September and plans to launch in other markets across the country next year. With 4G, downloads of a song might take several seconds or a movie less than an hour while outside or moving through the city - three to five times faster than 3G networks. The device is priced at $149.99 with a two-year contract, after a $50 mail-in rebate.
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By Gus G. Sentementes | July 26, 2008
The Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Domino Sugar $4,000 for allowing sugar dust to accumulate in its refinery, which is believed to have caused an explosion last year at the Key Highway plant in South Baltimore, according to a state report. The Nov. 2 explosion echoed across the harbor, and authorities said they suspected sugar dust might have ignited. Three employees suffered minor injuries, several pieces of equipment were destroyed and dozens of windows were shattered in the blast.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | July 22, 2008
Francis Joseph Chmilewski, a retired Domino Sugars Co. mechanic and veteran of two branches of the military, died of lung cancer July 13 at Mercy Medical Center. The Edgemere resident was 76. Mr. Chmilewski was born and raised in Baltimore and attended city public schools. He later earned his General Educational Development diploma while serving in the Army. "He lied about his age when he enlisted in the Navy, where he served for four years," said the former May Birkelien, his wife of 11 years.
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By JAY HANCOCK | May 16, 2008
Those champagne corks heard on the Inner Harbor yesterday may well have been popping at Domino Sugar, where the high prices and corporate welfare are sweeter than anything that gets loaded on the trucks. Congress' veto-proof passage of the 2008 farm bill ensures that Domino's proprietor, the Fanjul family, and fat-cat farmers across the nation will keep wallowing in trade protections that disappeared decades ago for other industries. But while the bill is good for Domino, its 400 Baltimore jobs and a few agri-corporations, it hurts everybody else.
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By KEVIN COWHERD | February 18, 2008
For years now, I have tried to keep life simple and not get dragged under by modern technology and the slow geek death of being chained to a PC or laptop or BlackBerry. Ordering a delivery pizza used to be simple. You picked up the phone, placed your order and, a half-hour later, a jumpy kid with stringy hair was ringing your doorbell and handing you a large sausage pizza with extra cheese. It was a beautiful system. You think they do this in North Korea? They don't, believe me. But now, Domino's Pizza comes out with a new gimmick called Pizza Tracker, which allows customers to go online and follow the progress of their pizza from the time they order it until the jumpy kid delivers it to their door.
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By Allison Connolly | November 10, 2007
The familiar yellow and white bags of Domino sugar are once again rolling off the conveyor belts at the Key Highway plant, one week after an explosion blew out windows and rendered the powdered sugar mill a total loss. There is more work to be done, with windows still being boarded up yesterday. But managers picked up mops and workers volunteered overtime to get production lines operating again in advance of the busy holiday baking season. "It was a spectacular effort," refinery manager Stuart FitzGibbon said at a news conference yesterday at the Museum of Industry on Key Highway.
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November 6, 2007
The Domino Sugar plant in South Baltimore that shut down after an explosion and fire last week could restart operations by Friday, a company official said yesterday. Brian O'Malley, president of sales and marketing for Domino Foods Inc.in Iselin, N.J., said work crews are doing an extensive overhaul and cleaning of the nine-story building on Key Highway. "We certainly feel very fortunate that nobody was seriously injured or killed," O'Malley said. "It's too early to tell on the damage estimate, but we're going to be back 100 percent in a very short period of time."
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By Julie Bykowicz and Gus. G. Sentementes | November 3, 2007
Shattered windows of the Domino Sugar plant looked out over South Baltimore last night after an explosion, so powerful that it shook buildings across the Inner Harbor, forced the refinery's evacuation and closure - possibly for days. Fire officials said the blast did not appear to have done any significant damage to structures at the plant, an integral part of the city skyline for 85 years. The explosion and fires, on the sixth and ninth floors of a building where sugar is refined and packaged, were confined to a dust collection system, officials said.
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By Jacques Kelly | November 3, 2007
Its dimensions and power inspire urban awe: the second-largest field of neon on the East Coast, a 120-by-70-foot spectacular electrical blaze that has cast its blood-orange radiance across the upriver waters of the Patapsco since April 25, 1951. "The sign has 650 neon tubes searing a 760-amps-per-hour image into the psyche of Charm City," as a Sun article described it a decade ago. Baltimore's iconic Domino Sugars sign (the final S is never pronounced, nor is it part of the company's official name)