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Johnson Smith Company (Johnson Smith & Co.) was a mail-order business established in 1914 by Alfred Johnson Smith that sold novelty items and gag gifts such as miniature cameras, invisible ink, x-ray goggles, whoopee cushions, fake vomit, and joy buzzers. Founded in Chicago, the company relocated to Racine, Wisconsin in 1923, [1] to Detroit in ...
Saks & Co. Indianapolis, 1906. Andrew Saks was born to a German Jewish family, in Baltimore, Maryland.He worked as a peddler and paper boy before moving to Washington, D.C., where at the age of only 20, and in the still-chaotic and tough economic times of 1867, two years after the United States prevailed in the American Civil War, he established a men's clothing store [10] with his brother ...
United Parcel Service. United Parcel Service, Inc. ( UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [ 1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [ 6] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers.
The company was founded in Rockledge, Florida [13] in 2009 as Mainstream Motors by Robert "RJ" Scaringe. [14] After being renamed as Avera Automotive [15] or Avera Motors, and finally Rivian Automotive in 2011 (a word play on the Indian River in Florida, where Scaringe grew up), [16] the company began focusing on autonomous and electric vehicles.
Nastapoka Arc map with conjectured circle. The Nastapoka arc is a curved segment of the southeastern shore of Hudson Bay in Quebec, Canada, that extends from the most northerly of the Hopewell Islands to Long Island near the junction with James Bay. It is a prominent, near-perfect circular arc, covering more than 160° of a 450-km-diameter ...
To protect shipping lanes in the Red Sea, the US militarily intervenes on Eritrea's side and ejects the invading Ethiopians from the country. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier: Video game 2012 2024 A paramilitary group seizes control of Russia and launches a nuclear missile at London. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Island Thunder: Video game ...
A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization. Container ships are a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport and now carry most seagoing non-bulk cargo.
Max. depth. 4,694 m (15,400 ft) The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. The world's largest bay, geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese peninsula, located below the Bengal region . Many South Asian and Southeast Asian countries are dependent on the Bay of Bengal.