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During a ferry flight from Andreyevka to a state farm in Almaty for crop-spraying, the pilot decided to fly over the Chubundy mountain range rather than flying around it. The aircraft then encountered poor weather and later crashed on a mountain top at 1,200 m (3,900 ft). [126] 24 April 1973: Leningrad Tu-104B CCCP-42505 Northern W/O 2 /57
The construction of State Farm Center, originally known as the Assembly Hall, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign consisted of building a huge indoor arena with a 400-foot-diameter (120 m) concrete dome whose center height is 125 feet (38 m) above the center floor, and which weighs 10 million pounds. [1]
The State Farm jingle ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there") was written by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow in 1971. A cover was released by Weezer in 2011. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] State Farm's first commercial jingle was created for The Jack Benny Program in the 1960s.
George Jacob "G.J." Mecherle [1] (pronounced "Ma-herl") (June 7, 1877 - March 10, 1951) was the founder of State Farm, headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois.Mecherle, a farmer who later became an insurance agent, founded State Farm after becoming dissatisfied with the insurance rates charged to farmers, as those rates included the risks of city drivers as well.
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State Farm's historian claims that "90% of Mecherle's original material is still in the office." [ 7 ] Inside the office are sales receipts dating to 1936 and guest book entries from 1945. Though the office is not open to the public, the company uses it to impart knowledge of the company's past to new employees.
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