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In 2014, Arkansas Best was renamed ArcBest Corporation. [10] This was followed in 2015 by the acquisition of Smart Lines Transportation Group and Bear Transportation Services and in 2016 by the acquisition of Logistics & Distribution Services. Also in 2016, the company reorganized rebranding many of its services under the name ArcBest. [5]
Riceland Foods, Inc. is the largest farmer-owned rice and soybean marketing cooperative in the world with headquarters in Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States.The cooperative was founded in 1921 and has become a major rice and grain miller and a global marketer of the same.
The McKennon-Shea House is a historic house at 206 Waterman Street in Dumas, Arkansas.The 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1910, and bought in 1913 by Claude McKennon, a local entrepreneur who established a farm supply business in Dumas at about the same time, and built a real estate empire of farmland operated by tenant farmers.
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Arkansas-Best changed its name to ABF Freight System Inc. in 1980 [7] and, by 1981, was the eighth largest trucking company in the US operating 106 terminals. [6] It acquired East Texas Motor Freight Lines, a subsidiary of Bright Industries Inc., in 1982, a move which added 44 new terminal cities increasing ABF's reach to a total of 158, [ 9 ...
Thomas O. Murton (March 15, 1928 – October 10, 1990) was a penologist best known for his wardenship of the prison farms of Arkansas.In 1969, he published an account of the endemic corruption there which created a national scandal, and which was popularized in a fictional version by the film Brubaker.
Herbert Allen Farmer (March 9, 1891 – January 12, 1948), was an American criminal who, with his wife Esther, operated a safe house in southwest Missouri for underworld fugitives from the mid-1920s to 1933.
One such method that is being adopted more and more by rice farmers in Arkansas is straight-levee rice cultivation. [8] Other common methods of irrigation include flood/ levees , of which 1,089,036 acres of rice (74.9% of total acreage) were irrigated with in the year 2003, as well as flood/multiple inlets, of which 361,168 (24.8% of total ...