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A potbelly stove is a cast-iron, coal-burning or wood-burning stove that is cylindrical with a bulge in the middle. [1] The name is derived from the resemblance of the stove to a fat person's pot belly. Potbelly stoves were used to heat large rooms and were often found in train stations or one-room schoolhouses. The flat top of the stove allows ...
U.S. Census data crunched at The Times' request by the National Multifamily Housing Council, a Washington, D.C.-based landlord trade group, found that California has more apartments on the market ...
Barrington Plaza is an apartment complex in Los Angeles, California, located at 11740 Wilshire Boulevard in Sawtelle. At the time of its completion, in 1962, it was described as the largest privately built apartment development in the western United States .
The Round Oak Stove Company was founded in Dowagiac, Michigan in 1871 by Philo D. Beckwith. Beckwith cast his first stove around 1867 to heat his struggling foundry and shortly after, the Michigan Central Railroad ordered the heaters for its depots between Detroit and Chicago. By 1871, Beckwith was mainly producing heating stoves, and thus ...
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Abdominal obesity, commonly known as a pot belly, deposits of body fat localised around the abdomen; Potbelly stove, a type of cast-iron wood-burning stove; Potbelly Sandwich Shop; Potbelly sculpture, a type of ancient monument found in southern Mesoamerica; Ptolemy VIII Physcon, king of Egypt c. 182 BC – 116 BC; Göbekli Tepe, Turkish for ...
Western Stove opened its factory in Culver City in 1922. [1] By 1947 Western Stove employed 720 employees on 11 acres, a significant increase from its beginnings in two small buildings with just 20 employees. [2] By 1947, it sold its appliances in eleven Western states, expanding to Texas by opening an office in May of that year. [3]
The Ferrara Candy Co. — which manufactures brands such as NERDS, SweeTARTS and Trolli — is poised to acquire nearly 800 Jelly Belly employees and its facilities in California, Illinois and ...