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In 1950, Admiral Corporation purchased Midwest Manufacturing, with the latter becoming a wholly owned subsidiary, but retaining its name and corporate identity. By 1959, employment had grown from 500 to 2,000, with an annual payroll of over $8 million. Employment peaked at 3,300 in the early 1970s at Admiral’s Galesburg Appliance Division.
1915. Defunct. 1970. Fate. Merged with Chance Rides. Area served. Worldwide. The Allan Herschell Company was a company that specialized in the creation of amusement rides, particularly carousels and roller coasters. The company manufactured portable machines that could be used by traveling carnival operators.
Munsell Color Company. The Munsell Color Company was founded by Albert H. Munsell in 1917 with two other stockholders, Arthur Allen and Ray Greenleaf. [1] It was located at Boston, Massachusetts. This company was manufactured to carry on business by publishing books, selling color supplies for schools such as crayons, water colors, paper colors ...
November 13, 1997. Williamson County Historical Society sign for Allen Manufacturing Company, also known as Dortch Stove Works. Dortch Stove Works is an historic stove manufacturing plant in Franklin, Tennessee. It was built in 1929 by Allen Manufacturing Company, then based in Nashville, Tennessee. During its manufacturing prime, the plant ...
TaharQa Z. Aleem (born February 14, 1946) and Tunde Ra Aleem (February 14, 1946 – August 14, 2014) were twins formerly known as Albert Allen and Arthur Allen, respectively. Although they wore many hats, they are most notable for being American musicians, producers, authors, and entrepreneurs originally based out of Harlem, NY, in addition to ...
Retired in 1944. Shipped to Auburn, Washington in 1945. Sold to Dulien Steel Products Co. (dealer) in 1946. [9] Resold to the Hacienda Casa Grande of the Chicama Valley, Peru in 1948 (CG #17). [48] [50] [51] The Hacienda’s property was nationalized and re-named Casa Grande Co-op No. 32 in 1969. [52] This loco was subsequently re-numbered to ...
According to the Guinness Book of World Records: "The largest four-faced clock is that on the research and office addition of the Allen-Bradley Company. Each face has a diameter of 40 feet 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (12.28 meters), and is octagonal to represent the outline of the Allen-Bradley logo. Dedicated on October 31, 1962, it rises 280 ft (85 m ...
Arthur Augustus Allen (28 December 1885 – 17 January 1964) was an American professor of ornithology at Cornell University. Allen was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Daniel Williams Allen and Anna née Moore. He studied at Cornell University, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1907, his Master of Arts in 1908 and his Ph.D. in 1911.