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was a determined and hard-working woman who raised a familyof five in Texas during the Depression. In 1927 she took a job at the Woolworth¡¯s in Dallas making pies for the lunchtime crowds. Her pies became so popular that the manager doubled the length of the counter to accommodate his customers. When she started, she made twenty pies a day, and soon increased her output to Her visionary husband, Henry Marshall, quickly realized that if Woolworth¡¯s could make money on his wife¡¯s pies, then so could he. With a twinkle in his eye and sheer determination, Henry Marshall strode into the ¡°Charles Dennery Bakery Supply¡± and purchased $25.50 worth of ingredients and pie pans with his entire savings of $1.67 as a downpayment. And the Bama Pie Company was born. Henry said to his son, ¡°Paul, take a look around you. You are seeing the birth of an empire. This humble beginning is the start of a business that will spread to the far reaches of the
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