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  2. Order of Railway Conductors - Wikipedia

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    The Order of Railway Conductors of America (ORC) was a labor union that represented train conductors in the United States. It has its origins in the Conductors Union founded in 1868. Later it extended membership to brakemen. In 1969 the ORC merged with three other unions to form the United Transportation Union.

  3. Order of Sleeping Car Conductors - Wikipedia

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    During World War I (1914-1918) the Federal government took control of the railroads in the United States and encouraged railroad workers to organize. [1] The Order of Sleeping Car Employees was established on 20 February 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri to undertake collective bargaining for wages and working conditions in the United States and Canada.

  4. List of American railway unions - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of unions and brotherhoods playing a significant role in the railroad industry of the United States of America.Many of these entities changed names and merged over the years; this list is based upon the names current during the height of American railway unionism in the first decades of the 20th century.

  5. Orc - Wikipedia

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    An orc (sometimes spelt ork; / ɔːr k / [1] [2]), [3] in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy fiction, is a race of humanoid monsters, which he also calls "goblin".. In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, orcs appear as a brutish, aggressive, ugly, and malevolent race of monsters, contrasting with the benevolent Elves.

  6. Origin recognition complex - Wikipedia

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    The ORC is essential for the loading of MCM complexes onto DNA. This process is dependent on the ORC, Noc3, Cdc6, and Cdt1 – involving several ATP controlled recruiting events. First, the ORC, Noc3p and Cdc6 form a complex on origin DNA (marked by ARS type regions). New ORC/Noc3/Cdc6 complexes then recruit Cdt1/Mcm2-7 molecules to the site.

  7. Opinion Research Corporation - Wikipedia

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    ORC is a founding member of the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO), a member of the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR), a member of the Association of Market and Social Research Organizations in Australia, and a member of the Market Research Society Company Partner Service, a UK-based association ...

  8. Organic Rankine cycle - Wikipedia

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    T-s diagram for the ideal/real ORC. The working principle of the organic Rankine cycle is the same as that of the Rankine cycle: the working fluid is pumped to a boiler where it is evaporated, passed through an expansion device (turbine, [3] screw, [4] scroll, [5] or other expander), and then through a condenser heat exchanger where it is finally re-condensed.

  9. Ohio Revised Code - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Revised Code (ORC) contains all current statutes of the Ohio General Assembly of a permanent and general nature, consolidated into provisions, titles, chapters and sections. [1] However, the only official publication of the enactments of the General Assembly is the Laws of Ohio ; the Ohio Revised Code is only a reference.