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To: advertising guy

Poor Randy. I hope the police dashcam video doesn’t end up on “World’s Dumbest.”

Nice to see you, BTW.


47 posted on 08/08/2012 10:16:58 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Interesting company history according to Wiki. Seems that it peaked in the 1950 and had a militant labor force...

"Kansas City Bolt and Nut Company plant was a diverse steel parts manufacturing plant in Kansas City, Missouri that through its successors at its peak in the 1950s employed more than 4,500 people.

The plant started in 1888. In 1925 it was acquired by Sheffield Steel Corporation and with its variety of products and was billed as department store of the steel industry with a more diversified line of products than any mill in the country."[1][2] It was located near the confluence of the Missouri River and Blue River (Missouri) in Kansas City's Northeast Industrial District. The company was the first manufacturer to go into the district and within 10 years 30 other manufacturers followed it with the enclaves adopting the English industrial town names of Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester as levees were built to protect it.[3]

It was acquired by Armco Steel in 1930 which expanded it in 1945. At its peak it was one of Kansas City's largest employers with more than 4,500 employees.[4] Operating as Armco Worldwide Grinding System was sold in 1993 to GS Technologies which became GST Steel Company. In 1997 the plant had a 10-week strike.[5] It closed in February 2001 with the layoff of 750 employees.[6][7]"

50 posted on 08/08/2012 10:27:21 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Too many thinking Freepers have left the building...)
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