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Dallas Water Utilities (DWU) is the water and wastewater service operated by the City of Dallas, Texas, in the United States. DWU is a non-profit City of Dallas department that provides services to the city and 31 nearby communities, employs approximately 1450 people, and consists of 26 programs.
In 1970, NCH purchased P & M Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles and the Pennsylvania-based Daniel P. Creed Co., Inc., in 1972. P & M, with annual sales of about $1.5 million in the plumbing maintenance industry, was acquired for 8,686 shares of common stock. Creed, also in the plumbing supply business, was a cash purchase.
Robert Lee Thornton Sr. (often R. L. Thornton; August 10, 1880 – February 15, 1964) was an American banker, civic leader, and four-term Mayor of Dallas, Texas. R.L. Thornton, Mayor of Dallas, photo from Dallas Historical Society. A child of tenant farmers, Thornton's early years were divided between school and farm labor.
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His parents were Julia Pauline (née Burns; 1901–1994), a housewife, and George David Newhart (1899–1987), a part-owner of a plumbing supply business. [6] His mother was of Irish descent, while his father was of German and Irish descent. [3] [7] He went by his middle name, "Bob," to avoid confusion with his father. [5]
According to the National Weather Service, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport recorded more than 7 inches of rain — an entire summer's worth — between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.
The Dallas Times Herald, founded in 1888 by a merger of the Dallas Times and the Dallas Herald, was once one of two major daily newspapers serving the Dallas, Texas area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes , all for photography, and two George Polk Awards , for local and regional reporting.