grafton furniture is a shining example. started in 1964 by esteban grafton, the custom manufacturing company makes everything from sofas, chairs, to tables. steve: this one's 154" by 96". lemonis: his son steve now runs the business and designs most of the furniture and is 50/50 partners with his wife, mary. their son, also steve, is there to learn the business and keep it going for another generation. but when the economy turned in 2009, so did the company's fortunes. steve: the market was soft. finances were really bad. lemonis: when business slowed, the company and the family began piling up debt to keep the doors open. today, with limited funds, they work in an outdated facility that's strangling production. third-generation businesses have a high fail rate, and without some dramatic changes, the future of this business is in serious doubt. hopefully, i can get a deal done and have lots of reasons to come back to miami, including making some money. my first impression of grafton furniture is that i like what i see. i li

almost all of them were throwing the eggs bar in the small bavarian town of grafton everyone is walking. many of the regulars here are u.s. soldiers from the nearby army base. here to lay out who has been standing behind this bar for 27 years taking care of soldiers when they're happy and they're angry and they're promoting a person to those who come here this is more than just a bar and give sure there's more than just its owner. good men made for an ounce and they don't call me by my 1st name they just call me mom you know a lot of them say this is their home away from home sometimes they come here and they might be in low spirits so when i see that i try to talk to them about it is even i can say they're like my own children but they come here so often it's like my family here you know. it's bar named after gershon's late husband himself a g.i. is a fixture in tough. it's a quiet town. that's home to the largest overseas u.s. army base in the world and to 12000 soldiers and their families talk of use to patrol gives rise to uncertainty from the base is the backbone of this otherwise

even he was here back in 1958 i was present he spent a few weeks in grafton and even though it violated the terms of his record deal he played one small concert in a local strip club on this very piano a story they're proud of here but u.s. troops don't only enrich coughing they also get something in return. overheads bar crystal is one of the regular soccer with the originally from texas she's been in constant growth for 4 years not as military but as a civilian working at the base she believes living here is a unique experience for her and the soldiers alike. it's not just another duty station it's ending its chance to experience culture and another culture within the confines of that country a soldier sometimes they don't get to see much other than their work because there's good things that they can see and then there's you know the bad. and i think that coming to germany coming to other countries they do see the good. lots of good and sometimes that's that's but see to it that i did so far they hope that no troops will be withdrawn from coffins. you convinced it would be a loss not

which when i ran these regressions, and grafton out i was surprised by this. i think about drum history, and the government after the war ends, and you've got hyperinflation, it's high in 1923. this was for me a bit surprising. and it was, my return and it's actually my question to why is this, that they return to the archives, and then discovered the role of herbert humor herbert who or how it played in helping them recover. i'm not a historian, i'm had a lot of research about him, but i found him because i wanted to be able to answer this question. why are poor children doing so much better. i knew a little bit about it but, i need to get the numbers to see how this is working out. this is a similar graph for hikes, and i'm going to move on. so i used a lot of statistics, i also used qualitative sources. this is one example for me what's been so fun about my research, is the ability i've had to mix qualitative and quantitative sources and see where they actually meet this is from, a book published in 1919 and she said that for the second year of the war the

lemonis: if he can't do the job, you fire him. ...there may not be a next generation of grafton furniture.

grafton, the great parliamentarian. if you go to dublin today you'll still see the evidence of the great flowering of the anglo irish aristocracy. the buildings and everything are an expression of the people of english or british descent who became the ruling class in ireland. however, you can look at it from another angle. you look at it from the angle of the irish peasant or the irish-catholic, in the 18th century irish-catholics were faced with the disabilities imposed on them by the penal laws which prevented catholics from having -- well prevented catholics from a lot of things but over the period of time towards the 18th century the penal laws were relaxed somewhat, but still ireland was completely dominated by a relatively small percentage of the population of the ruling class. now i have to confess this was not unique. everywhere in europe people who didn't belong to the ruling class had pretty miserable lives. if you were a central european peasant or even a person of more means in the 17th century during the 3