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Gibson manufactured banjos in the years before World War II.They are differentiated from later Gibson banjos by their scarcity. Banjo sales plummeted during the Great Depression, for lack of buyers, and metal parts became scarce into the 1940s as factories shifted to support the war. [1]
It is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. As of December 31, 2020, the company owned 148,939 rail cars, including 83,959 tank cars , 64,980 freight cars , and 645 locomotives . Other major car types owned include covered hoppers , open-top hopper cars , and gondolas .
SLM Corporation (commonly known as Sallie Mae; originally the Student Loan Marketing Association) is a publicly traded U.S. corporation that provides consumer banking.Its nature has changed dramatically since it was set up in the early 1970s; initially a government entity that serviced federal education loans, it then became private and began offering private student loans.
150 North Riverside Plaza is a highrise building in Chicago, Illinois, completed in 2017 and anchored by William Blair and Co. The building is 54 stories tall and was designed by Goettsch Partners. The building occupies a two-acre site on the west bank of the Chicago River, whose size and location demanded an unusually small base for the building.
The Crain Communications Building is a 39-story, 582 foot (177 m) skyscraper located at 150 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, Illinois. [1] It was also known as the Smurfit–Stone Building and the Stone Container Building.
From January 2008 to September 2009, if you bought shares in companies when Sallie L. Krawcheck joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -37.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -28.0 percent return from the S&P 500.
McDermott International merged with Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (NYSE: CBI). [189] May 2, 2018: NVT: nVent Electric: KN: Knowles Corp: S&P 500 constituent Pentair plc (NYSE: PNR) spun off nVent Electric. [190] May 1, 2018: OAS: Oasis Petroleum: WPG: Washington Prime Group: Market capitalization changes [191] April 19, 2018: FIVE: Five ...
Gradually Universal Excavators designed by Bucyrus-Erie replaced Ruston & Hornsby designed models. The original range of standardised rope-operated machines included 10RB, 17RB, 19RB, and 33RB and were upgraded through some intermediate models including the 54RB to a main selling range in the 1960s of 22RB, 30RB, 38RB, 61RB, and 71RB.