That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

An unusual, if not extraordinary, rendering of the classic myth that involves the rescue of Prometheus from the rock by the U.S. Cavalry was given last week in the warehouse of the Albany Leather Conduit Company amid cheers of `` Hubba hubba '' and `` Yalagaloo pip pip ''!!

The most convincing recent measurement of an anaconda was made in eastern Colombia by Roberto Lamon, a petroleum geologist of the Richmond Oil Company, and reported in 1944 by Emmett R. Dunn.

Goodwin was telegrapher for the `` American Telegraph Company '' and the `` Troy and Canada Junction Telegraph Company ''.

By 1883 the `` Battenkill Telegraph Company '' was in existence and Alvin Pettibone was its president.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.

The next step was construction by the Manchester Light and Power Company of a plant on the west bank of the Battenkill south of Union Street bridge.

Marsden was manager of the company for ten years and manager of its successor company, the Colonial Light and Power Company, for one year.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

The Colonial Light and Power Company was succeeded by the Vermont Hydro-Electric Corporation, which in turn was absorbed by the Central Vermont Public Service Corporation.

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

The company owners, wrote the young United Company employee Colley Cibber, " who had made a monopoly of the stage, and consequently presum'd they might impose what conditions they pleased upon their people, did not consider that they were all this while endeavouring to enslave a set of actors whom the public were inclined to support.

Colley Cibber wrote in his autobiography that the owners of the United Company, " who had made a monopoly of the stage, and consequently presumed they might impose what conditions they pleased upon their people, did not consider that they were all this while endeavouring to enslave a set of actors whom the public … were inclined to support.

They had nothing like that amount of land available and the existing owners, the Māori, the native people of the country, were very reluctant to sell their land and not inclined to trust the New Zealand Company promises.

Following his more traditionally inclined brothers, who became respectively a doctor, a lawyer, and an accountant, Isaacs studied law at Bristol University ( 1982 – 85 ), but he became more actively involved in the drama society, eventually performing in over 30 plays and performing each summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, first with Bristol University and then, twice, with the National Student Drama Company.

The first railway was privately owned and operated and commissioned by the Australian Agricultural Company in Newcastle in 1831, a cast iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway servicing A Pit coal mine.

Changes in the East India Company had brought him into relation with new officials, some of whom had not the slightest respect for the calling of the missionary, and were inclined to assume a high hand, until Morrison's threat to resign induced a more respectful temper.

As well as building the canal, the Canal Company could build inclined planes, railways or rollers if required, and could optionally use the bed of the River Neath.

The ground here rises sharply and the inclined plane was built to connect the lower and upper levels of the Peak Forest Tramway, which was built and initially operated by the Peak Forest Canal Company.

Trying to replace the Enforcers with a breed of mortal who will be easy to control, and not inclined to hang around forever, the Company genetically engineers a series of identical individuals under the project name Adonai.

While many of these systems involve cars permanently attached to the cable, the system developed by Poma-Otis, a company formed by the merger of the cable car interests of the Pomagalski ski lift company and the Otis Elevator Company, allows the car to be decoupled from the cable under computer control, and can thus be considered a modern interpretation of the cable car.

When an Indian ruler, who was able to secure his territory, wanted to enter such an alliance, the Company welcomed it as an economical method of indirect rule, which did not involve the economic costs of direct administration or the political costs of gaining the support of alien subjects.

The officers of the New Zealand Company knew that any such declaration would involve a freeze on all land sales pending the establishment of effective British control, and control over the purchase of Maori lands by Europeans.

" Rolls-Royce was, however, obliged to set up a proxy board to manage Allison and had also to set up a separate company, Allison Advanced Development Company, Inc., to manage classified programmes " that involve leading-edge technologies ".

The BSCP also tried to involve the federal government in its fight with the Pullman Company: on September 7, 1927 the Brotherhood filed a case with the Interstate Commerce Commission, requesting an investigation of Pullman rates, porters ' wages, tipping practices, and other matters related to wages and working conditions ; the ICC ruled that it did not have jurisdiction.

Hearst-owned ABC affiliates in National Football League markets simulcast Monday Night Football games from ESPN that involve these teams-ESPN is 20 % owned by Hearst, the rest being owned by ABC's parent, the Walt Disney Company.

In the wake of reports from Israeli business newspaper Globes and industry newswire Amusement Management that Disney itself would be involved in the project's development, a spokesperson for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts clarified to Fast Company that Disney did not have any plans to involve itself in the building of the park.

In an announcement, Mesa Air Group CEO Jonathan Ornstein assured shareholders and investors that " the alleged misconduct does not involve the financial controls, financial statements or operations of the Company.

Acting under a charter sanctioned by the Dutch government, the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) defeated Portuguese forces and established itself in the Moluccan Islands in order to profit from the European demand for spices.

An example of an in rem case is United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola ( 1916 ), where the defendant was not The Coca Cola Company itself, but rather " Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola ".

After GM announced that same day that the sale was to an undisclosed Chinese company, CNN and the New York Times identified the buyer of the Hummer truck unit as China-based Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd. Later that day, Sichuan Tengzhong itself announced the deal on their own website.

Founded the De Beers Mining Company and owned the British South Africa Company, which established Rhodesia for itself.

Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the film from the film's financer The Quaker Oats Company in 1977 ( around the same time they bought out Wolper itself ), after Paramount no longer had any interest to own the distribution rights to the film due to the initial box office failure of Willy Wonka.

The Volta Graphophone Company then merged with American Graphophone, which itself later evolved into Columbia Records.

The Dayton, Ohio-based Mike-sell's Potato Chip Company, founded in 1910, calls itself the " oldest potato chip company in the United States ".

It was dissolved in 1658 and its assets were acquired by the Company of Cape Vert and Senegal, itself expropriated following the creation by Colbert in 1664 of the French West India Company.

There is evidence that some authors were recognised by the Company itself to have the right to copy and the right to alter their works ; these authors were uniformly the writers of uneconomical books who were underwriting their publication.

For the next half century, the network behind the telephone became progressively larger and much more efficient, but after the telephone dial was added the instrument itself changed little until American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( AT & T ) introduced touch-tone dialing in the 1960s.

The following year, 1615, King James I granted a charter to a new company, the Somers Isles Company, formed by the same shareholders, which ran the colony until it was dissolved in 1684 ( The Virginia Company itself was dissolved after its charter was revoked in 1624 ).

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The Fort Worth Street Railway Company bought out many of its competitors, and was eventually itself bought out by the Bishop & Sherwin Syndicate in 1901.

Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent ( 2 June 1850 – 13 June 1931 ) transformed The Boots Company, founded by his father, John Boot, into a national retailer, which branded itself as " Chemists to the Nation ", before he sold out his controlling interest to American investors in 1920.

Development of magnetic tape recorders in the late 1940s and early 1950s is associated with Ampex ; the equally important development of magnetic tape media itself was led by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ( now known as 3M ).

The Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij ( Dutch Oil Company ) established itself in the city and with that, a trend was set.

On June 12, 2001, TNT relaunched itself, with a new logo ( by Trollbäck + Company ) and a new slogan, " We Know Drama ," which emphasized the channel's new focus on programming with drama and energy, such as sports and network TV dramas like Angel, Law & Order, Charmed, NYPD Blue, ER, Without a Trace, Alias, Judging Amy, Las Vegas and Cold Case.

The board of directors decided to diversify the foundation's portfolio and gradually divested itself of its substantial Ford Motor Company stock between 1956 and 1974.

In 1946, the Duncan Toys Company opened a yo-yo factory in Luck, Wisconsin, prompting the town to dub itself ' Yo-yo Capital of the World '.

Around 1987, Alma called itself the " Spinach Capital of the World " because the Allen Canning Company based in Alma canned more than half of all the spinach canned in the U. S., about sixty million pounds a year.

In 1896, the village of L ' Anse burned to the ground, but gradually rebuilt itself into a lumber town with the arrival of Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company in the early 1900s.

Skidmore itself was platted in 1880 when M. Skidmore donated to the Nodaway Valley Railroad Company ( the agent for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad which was eventually taken over by the Burlington Northern Railroad ).