Still others relocated here with their employers, like 3M, and Harbor Freight Tools who built facilities in and around the city to take advantage of the large workforce.

Until the introduction of cheap mini-lathes by suppliers such as Warco, Harbor Freight, Grizzly and others, lathes produced by Myford or Bridgeport were fairly ubiquitous in model engineering.

In addition, many house brands exist, such as those carried at Princess Auto, Summit Tools or Harbor Freight Tools.

* Harbor Freight Tools

Harbor Freight Tools is an American privately held company that runs a chain of discount tool retail stores.

Harbor Freight operates offices in the United States as well as China.

Allan Smidt, a businessman from Los Angeles, started Harbor Freight Salvage Company in Los Angeles, CA.

This is how the unique and unusual name " Harbor Freight " came about.

Harbor Freight launched its first full-blown mail-order catalog in the mid 1980s.

Using a series of late night TV commercials in an advertising campaign, Harbor Freight grew its customer base to over 10, 000, 000 worldwide.

Today Harbor Freight Tools customers can purchase directly from the Internet, 800 number or in a retail store.

Harbor Freight Tools store, Ypsilanti Township, MI

Though primarily focused on tools, Harbor Freight did still deal in some salvage, and as they grew, so did everything else.

Harbor Freight launched its first store in Lexington, Kentucky, attached to what was then the location of the mid-west / east coast distribution center for mail-order.

Since that first store in Lexington, Harbor Freight has propelled to over 370 stores in 47 out of 50 states.

About 80-90 % of all products sold by Harbor Freight are private label store brands, or products offered by Harbor Freight and produced through manufacturers primarily in Asia.

Harbor Freight Tools sells products under its store brands such as Chicago Electric, Drill Master, Central Machinery, Central Pneumatic, Central Hydraulics, U. S. General, Western Safety, One-Stop Gardens, Haul-Master and Pittsburgh Tools.

All Harbor Freight Pittsburgh Brand hand tools receive a lifetime warranty, regardless of receipt.

Harbor Freight Tools is currently headquartered in Calabasas, California, having relocated expanded marketing, merchandising, and other support systems to a in September 2010.

Harbor Freight has over of distribution space in Oxnard, California, over of distribution space in Camarillo, and over of distribution space in Dillon, South Carolina.

With the exception of Northern Tool, most all of their competitors complement Harbor Freight rather than compete directly with them.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Capt. A. B. Jenks of the Office of Harbor Defense was very worried.

They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.

Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan's art.

The original 1948 Master Plan included a Third Harbor Tunnel plan that was hugely controversial in its own right because it would have disrupted the Maverick Square area of East Boston.

Boston's Logan Airport lies across Boston Harbor in East Boston, and before the Big Dig the only access from downtown was through the paired Callahan and Sumner tunnels.

For his last game, the theme from Pearl Harbor, " There You'll Be " by Faith Hill, was featured.

The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using 1. 2 million cubic yards ( 917, 000 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of soil and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.

The Catalina Casino, a famous landmark overlooking Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island, California, has never been used for traditional games of chance, which were already outlawed in California by the time it was built.

After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.

The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely upriver from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships.

However, Japan reacted by an attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and the United States was at war with Japan, Germany, and Italy.

Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

This task force was used with devastating effect during the Pearl Harbor Attack.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Eisenhower was assigned to the General Staff in Washington, where he served until June 1942 with responsibility for creating the major war plans to defeat Japan and Germany.

These happen concurrently with the Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on December 7 in the United States.

It was the same fleet that had bombed Pearl Harbor, though a considerably larger number of bombs were dropped on Darwin than on Pearl Harbor.

This was contested in Gibbons v. Ogden ( 22 U. S. 1 ) ( 1824 ), which decided that the regulation of interstate commerce fell under the authority of the federal government, thus influencing competition in the newly developing steam ferry service in New York Harbor.

The matter was resolved with a compact between the states, ratified by U. S. Congress in 1834, which set the boundary line between them as the middle of the Hudson River and New York Harbor.

During this period of relative inactivity he paid a flying visit to Pearl Harbor, where he was not impressed with the poor state of readiness.

She was rescued from the New York Harbor on September 16 with no recollection of the time in between.