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Former Ex-Im poster child: ‘It looked like everything was for big business’

By Timothy P. Carney
Published August 10, 2015 8:54pm ET
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Former Ex-Im poster child: ‘It looked like everything was for big business’
"We used to be their poster child. They even used us in their magazine," Ardis Almond said, referring to the Export-Import Bank's glossy, stylized 2003 annual report.

The Almond family has been in the lumber business since Green Almond lost his arm in battle at Chancellorsville, according to the lumber company’s website.

Almond Brothers Lumber, founded in 1947, became the Small Business Exporter of the Year in 2000 for the Export-Import Bank, the defunct federal agency that used to subsidize U.S. exporters. The 2003 Ex-Im Annual Report featured a two-page spread on the Almond Brothers.

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