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Ceco Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...bars used by the com- mercial construction industry to create buildings out of concrete. By the end...
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| 452 |
Continental Can Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Group, a conglomerate with operations in many industries. By the end of the 1980s, the remnants of...
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| 453 |
Fairbank (N. K.) & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...generated by the city's large meatpacking industry, the company expanded. By 1870, its new plant at...
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| 454 |
Fansteel Inc., (
Business Dictionary
) ...supplied specialty components for the aerospace industry and other users of exotic metallic goods....
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| 455 |
FMC Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...products and services for the oil and gas industries. At the end of the century, with annual sales...
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| 456 |
Kimball (W. W.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the top 10 manufacturers in the U.S. piano industry. During the 1950s, when it moved its main plant...
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| 457 |
Link-Belt Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...other machines for use in agriculture and industry. In 1906, Ewart Manufacturing merged with Link-...
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| 458 |
National Packing Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1912, leaving the structure of the American meat industry about the same as it had been before 1902....
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| 459 |
Republic Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...time, however, hurt the entire American steel industry, and LTV declared reorganization bankruptcy...
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| 460 |
Signode Steel Strapping Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...1980s, when the company became known as Signode Industries Inc. , it employed nearly 2,000 people in...
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| 461 |
Chicago's Railroad Pattern in 1950, (
Map
) ...area built to exchange freight between the trunk railroads and to service metropolitan industry....
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| 462 |
People and the Port, Theodore Karamanski(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...1961 and cheaper real estate spurred major industries such as grain storage and steel production to...
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| 463 |
Bally Manufacturing Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Bally found success in the new video game industry. Bally's video arcades and electronic games,...
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| 464 |
Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...would revolutionize the telecommunications industry. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply soon threatened...
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| 465 |
Sanitation in Chicago, Louis Cain(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...the South Branch where much of the city's industry was located. Simultaneously, the city discovered...
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| 466 |
Automatic Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Like Western Electric, another industry-leading telephone equipment manufacturer located in the...
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| 467 |
American Hospital Supply Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...by Foster G. McGaw. It came to dominate its industry in the 1930s and '40s by changing the way...
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| 468 |
Bethlehem Steel Corp., (
Business Dictionary
) ...total workforce. But as the American steel industry declined and Bethlehem cut back, the Burns...
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| 469 |
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...In 1979, the company became known as CBI Industries; five years later, it acquired Liquid Carbonic,...
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| 470 |
Curtiss Candy Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...among the top 10 firms in the U.S. candy industry. Control of the company left the Chicago area in...
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