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Ax-Man Surplus Stores is a chain of surplus stores in the Twin Cities metro area in Minnesota, known locally for its eclectic atmosphere and unique selection of merchandise. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They specialize in industrial and scientific surplus, as well as manufacturing surplus and failed consumer products.
Great Lakes Fleet was formed on July 1, 1967, when U.S. Steel consolidated its Great Lakes shipping operations by merging the Pittsburgh Steamship Division and its sister fleet, the Bradley Transportation Company forming the USS Great Lakes Fleet. [2] In 1981, Great Lakes Fleet was spun off into a U.S. Steel-owned subsidiary, Transtar, Inc. [3]
Fleet Farm was founded in 1955 by Stewart Mills Sr. and his sons Henry Mills II and Stewart Mills Jr. The first store, named Fleet Wholesale Supply, was opened in Marshfield, Wisconsin. [2] Similarly named Blain's Farm and Fleet was also founded in 1955 by Bert and Claude Blain, friends of the Mills family. The two families agreed to use ...
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The Minnesota Department of Administration (Admin) is a cabinet-level agency and the central housekeeping department for the whole of state government. [1] Admin is the successor to the Commission of Administration and Finance, which was split into the Department of Administration and the Management and Finance Bureau in the Governor's Office by an act of the Minnesota Legislature in 1939.
Minnesota lawmakers will have more money available this year than previously expected as officials on Thursday projected a $3.7 billion state budget surplus. That's an increase of $1.3 billion ...
1960s: Company established taconite mine in Eveleth, Minnesota. [5] 1975: Oglebay-leased ship, the Edmund Fitzgerald, sinks in Lake Superior. Ship owned by Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company. February 1998: John Lauer takes over as CEO; stock is around $40; company has $52 million in debt. He completes half-dozen acquisitions in first 18 ...
SS William A. Irvin is a lake freighter, named for William A. Irvin, that sailed as a bulk freighter on the Great Lakes as part US Steel's lake fleet. She was flagship of the company fleet from her launch in the depths of the Great Depression in 1938 until 1975 and then was a general workhorse of the fleet until her retirement in 1978.