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BCIU was formed November 10, 1955, at the White House Industrial Cooperation Council Conference, as an initiative directed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.It was established with the purpose of improving foreign understanding of business practices within the United States, [1] thereby lifting a national image that had suffered greatly through the course of the Cold War.
The West Reading Market Annex, which was built in 1895, is located to the rear of the Hiester House. It is a brick market house measuring 165 feet long and thirty feet wide. [ 2 ] The complex is the home of The Speckled Hen Cottage Pub and Alehouse.
Reading (/ ˈ r ɛ d ɪ ŋ / RED-ing; Pennsylvania German: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.
Bassett's Ice Cream at Reading Terminal Market Harry Ochs Original Harry Ochs meat stand. Open-air markets have flourished in Philadelphia since its founding. Growth of the city demanded more markets, and the string of open-air markets extending from the Delaware River ran for six blocks, or one full mile, prompting the main street (then called 'High Street') to be renamed 'Market Street' in ...
In 2004 Yochai Benkler noted that online platforms, alongside free software and wireless networks, allowed households to share idle or underused resources. [14] As the sharing economy inspires itself largely from the open source philosophy, [15] open source projects dedicated to launching a peer to peer marketplace include Cocorico [16] and ...
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1528, "Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Terminal Station, 1115–1141 Market Street", 10 photos, 1 color transparency, 3 photo caption pages Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-417, " Reading Terminal, 11th and Arch Streets ", 17 photos, 1 color transparency, 2 photo caption pages
The township is located in eastern Adams County and contains the settlements of Hampton and Lake Meade.According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 26.8 square miles (69.3 km 2), of which 26.3 square miles (68.2 km 2) is land and 0.42 square miles (1.1 km 2), or 1.60%, is water. [3]
As of 2020, there were 12.92 miles (20.79 km) of public roads in West Reading, of which 1.84 miles (2.96 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 11.08 miles (17.83 km) were maintained by the borough. [8] U.S. Route 422 is the main highway serving West Reading. It follows the West Shore Bypass along a ...