Even with over 80 container ships just sitting at the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports, Emily Hibard’s paper manufacturing business was forced by government to sell their old trucks. Hibrad asserts such recent regulations are a major contributor to the supply chain fiasco.
Growing up in poverty in Wisconsin, Emily’s grandfather and founder of the company, George Hibard moved to LA and started “Spiral Paper Tube & Core” in South Central in 1949. He successfully defended the business during the 1968 Watts riots. Emily was 12 during the height of the Bloods and Crips. During the 1992 Riots, she slept on a cardboard box on the roof and ran a garden hose to put out fires from molotov cocktails thrown at the family business.
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