Mr. Dillon had begun his own religious transformation a few years earlier, after accompanying his wife to her boss's church as she sought a promotion. (She didn't get it.) Then, a few years after joining Tampa Bay Steel, Mr. Dillon became uncomfortable with the company's habit of paying its bills a few weeks late, even as it pushed customers to pay on time. He felt this violated a passage in the Book of Proverbs enjoining merchants to keep "honest scales." He convinced Mr. McInnis, a Christian who says he's less "bold" about his faith than Mr. Dillon, to approve borrowing $500,000 to pay overdue bills.
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