Showing posts with label manufacturing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manufacturing. Show all posts
Sep 1, 2012

Thomas Bata

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(Wikipedia) Tomáš Jan Baťa, CC (September 17, 1914 – September 1, 2008), also known as Tomas Bata Jr. and Tomáš Baťa ml. and "Shoem...
Jun 19, 2012

Aegis: 50 Years Ago

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(Aegis) ... The Lamm Brothers Inc., owners of the Bel Air Manufacturing Company, broke ground at the site of the company's new manufac...
Mar 6, 2012

OREO Turns 100 Years Young

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(BUSINESS WIRE) Magic happened on March 6, 1912 when two decoratively embossed chocolate-flavored biscuits met up with a rich creme filling:...
Feb 4, 2012

The Union’s ‘Newfangled Gimcracks’

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(NYTimes) In late December 1861 Abraham Lincoln issued a directive that, had it been vigorously pursued, might have brought the Civil War to...
Sep 5, 2011

Labor Day Cigars

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(YDR via Firecured ) When I was about 10 ... I used to sell crab cakes and fish for a man down Mason Alley. ... I used to go to a place ...
Jun 13, 2011

The Office of War Information

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(LoC) On June 13, 1942, some six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor , the Office of War Information (OWI) was created. In October of ...
May 27, 2011

A visit to Red Lion's last cigar factory

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(Firecured) I took a ride up to Red Lion yesterday to visit the last cigar factory in town before it was to be auctioned off, later that day...
Apr 24, 2011

1907: Hersheypark opens

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(Wikipedia) ... In 1903, Milton S. Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, surveyed a site along Spring Creek that would be suita...
Mar 25, 2011

Triangle Shirtwaist fire: Why it inspires plays and poetry readings 100 years later

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(csmonitor) One hundred years ago today, at 4:45 p.m., a fire ignited in a scrap basket inside New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. ...
Mar 15, 2011

Marjorie Merriweather Post

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(Wikipedia) Marjorie Merriweather Post a.k.a. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was a...
Feb 19, 2011

The Drama of Steel

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1946 ARC Identifier 12505 / Local Identifier 70.218. This documentary film starts with the history of the steelmaking process, explaining th...
Jan 22, 2011

Turkey Hill opening tourism spot this spring in Lancaster County

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(YDR) York County's tourism is rooted in its manufacturing base and manifested through factory tours with stops such as Harley-Davidson ...
Nov 22, 2010

How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation

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(NYTBR) It has often been noted that while the American union was established by the Revolution, the American nation was forged only upon th...
Oct 31, 2010

Pontiac, 84, Dies of Indifference

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(NYTimes) Pontiac, the brand that invented the muscle car under its flamboyant engineer John Z. DeLorean, helped Burt Reynolds elude Sheriff...
Oct 7, 2010

Original Hershey Chocolate Factory Set To Close

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(NPR) Imagine Google wrapped in chocolate. What the Internet giant is to its employees today — the extra benefits, the comfy workspace — Her...
Sep 19, 2010

Britain's child slaves: They started at 4am, lived off acorns and had nails put through their ears for shoddy work.

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(Mail Online) ... A single 'hurrier' pulled the heavy cart of coal, weighing as much as 500lb, attached by a chain to a belt worn ar...
May 16, 2010

H. B. Reese

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(Wikipedia) - Harry Burnett (H.B.) Reese (May 24, 1879 – May 16, 1956) was the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founder of the...
Jan 25, 2010

Skinner UnaFlow Steam Engine Needs a New Home

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(Steampunk Workshop) I received a very interesting email a couple of days ago from a fellow who was tearing down the old Nichols and Stone f...
Jan 24, 2010

Canned Beer Turns 75 - A Short History

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(Yahoo! News) Be sure to crack open a cold one on Jan. 24, the day canned beer celebrates its 75th birthday. New Jersey's Gottfried Krue...
Nov 27, 2009

Clement Studebaker

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(Wikipedia) Clement Studebaker (March 12, 1831 – November 27, 1901) was an American carriage manufacturer. With his brothers, he founded H ...