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Morton Salt has whitewashed that part of their history. I know it because I lived it. If there wasn't a Harvard case study there should be.

Some of the employees sued though my father chose not to be part of the lawsuit because he had moved on. The company lost the lawsuit but I can't find any record of it on Google. I don't think that was a coincidence ;<).

What, roughly, was the timeframe for this? I'm presuming within the past 50 years or so?

Morton-Thiokol (I remember the name from the Challenger disaster, I didn't realise it was that Morton until, well, about 20 seconds ago) formed in 1982.

So that'd be 1970s / early 1980s?

It was I believe in the late seventies, 1976-77 perhaps.

According to [0], John Simmons became CEO in 1972 at age 53 and remained there until he stepped down for health reasons in 1980/81 (he died of cancer shortly thereafter) [1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1972/11/16/archives/simmons-takes-mo...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/04/obituaries/john-w-simmons...

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