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The company town was built to process taconite mined and shipped by train from Babbitt, MN, sixty miles to the northwest.
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The company announced it would close the Herald American -- making Boston a one-newspaper town — on December 3, 1982.
Only a few scenes were actually filmed in Åmål, but these were not included in the final version: the main shooting took place in the nearby town of Trollhättan, location of Film i Väst's ( the company that produced the film ) film studios.
In 2000, all full-time company employees became town employees.
Essen became a large company town, and Krupp became a de facto state within a state, with " Kruppianer " as loyal to the company and the Krupp family as to the nation and the Hohenzollern family.
The company owns a large copper mill on the western outskirts of town.
Until he died in 1912, Henry controlled his company town, installing relatives in positions of civic authority.
Though single employer market power is unlikely to exist in most labor markets in the sense of the traditional ' company town ,' asymmetric information, imperfect mobility, and the ' personal ' element of the labor transaction give some degree of wage-setting power to most firms.
King's fictional town of Castle Rock inspired the name of Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the 1990 film.
A delegation of workers complained of the low wages and twelve-hour workdays, and that the corporation that operated the town of Pullman didn't decrease rents, but company owner George Pullman " loftily declined to talk with them.
In 1885, Ybor moved again, buying land near the then-small city of Tampa, Florida and building the largest cigar factory in the world at the time in the new company town of Ybor City.
Karlskoga has spent most of the 20th century as a growing company town to this cannon manufacturer.
The oldest ghost town in Antarctica is on Deception Island, where in 1906, a Norwegian-Chilean company set up a whaling station at Whalers Bay, which they used as a base for their factory ship, the Gobernador Bories.
Helsinki saw its first rickshaws in 2009 when a company decided to bring them from another town in Finland, Lappeenranta.
The company's growth led to the opening of a factory and company town in what is now the Astoria section of Queens in New York City and a factory in Hamburg, Germany.
Steinweg ) established a professional community, the company town Steinway Village, in what is now the Astoria section of Queens in New York City.
* Castle Rock Entertainment, a film production company founded by Rob Reiner and named after Stephen King's fictional town
The best-known saucy seaside postcards were created by a publishing company called Bamforths, based in the town of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England.
The company, which produces five hundred million litres of beer annually, is based in the town of Lieshout, North Brabant.
After abandoning his studies of pharmacology for financial reasons, James Baskett supported himself as an actor, moving from his home town of Indianapolis, Indiana to New York City, New York and joining the company of Bill Robinson, better known as Mr. Bojangles.
Soon after, he became house surgeon at the Chichester Infirmary ( 1887 – 9 ) and, although he enjoyed the town and the company of his colleagues, an appointment at Bart's and the opportunity to return to the company of productive researchers in medicine proved too much to resist.
In 1945, the Italian petrol company Agip, directed by Enrico Mattei, started extracting methane from its fields, and Lodi was the first Italian town with a regular domestic gas service.
Collett Park on Collett DayDuring the summer of 2010, the television production company Wall to Wall filmed a series for BBC One in the town centre which was broadcast from 2 November 2010.
As the town becomes richer and more successful, a pair of agents from the Harrison Shaughnessy mining company in Bearpaw arrive to buy out McCabe's business as well as the surrounding zinc mines.
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Kodyke was to head the dread company police.
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
`` I didn't know I was gonna have company in this car ''.
The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.
In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.
His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.
It was a picked assault company.
When it was over, eight of his company were still alive and all eight were wounded.
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.
There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).
Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.
Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.
He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.
Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.
Yes, Blanche was very, very sweet -- being in her company was like being drowned in warm, melted marshmallows.
The primary consideration in the compilation of this list was convenience in discussing the questionnaire with company officers.
Where possible, the name of an executive was supplied along with the company name and address.
There was further elimination of all companies that were not accompanied by the name of a responsible company executive.
Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.
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