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Equipment rental was first developed in Anglo-Saxon countries. It emerged in the UK after the First World War and has now become a multi-billion euro business providing a wide range of construction and industrial equipment for customers globally.The American Rental Association was founded as early as 1955, [1] and the first waves of consolidation took place in the 1970s in North America ...
The former Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD) is one of Nebraska's four major former ammunition plants: the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant, the Nebraska Ordnance Plant and the Martin Bomber Plant. [1] Its construction began in July 1942 on 49,000 acres (200 km 2 ) and was completed in early 1943 with over 2,000 buildings, bunkers , and various other types ...
Norfolk (/ ˈ n ɔːr f ɔːr k / NOR-fork or / ˈ n ɔːr f oʊ k / NOR-fohk) is a city in Madison County, Nebraska, United States, 113 miles northwest of Omaha and 76 miles southwest of Sioux City, Iowa, at the intersection of U.S. Routes 81 and 275.
The Nebraska Ordnance Plant is a former United States Army ammunition plant located approximately ½ mile south of Mead, Nebraska and 30 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska in Saunders County. It originally extended across 17,250 acres (69.8 km 2 ) producing weapons from 1942-45 after which the Army used it as a bomb factory during the Vietnam War.
The plant produced munitions during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. [1] It is located 6 miles (10 km) west of Grand Island, Nebraska. It is currently an EPA Superfund site because of groundwater contamination by explosives and soil contamination by explosives and heavy metals. [2] The plant occupies 12,042 acres (4,873 ha).
Gerald Gentleman Station is the largest electricity generating plant in Nebraska, USA. It is located at 41°04′51″N 101°08′35″W / 41.08083°N 101.14306°W / 41.08083; -101.14306 , approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Sutherland
The Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railway (reporting mark NKCR), formerly the Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado RailNet, is based in Grant, Nebraska, and operates about 509 miles (819 km) of track in southwestern Nebraska, northern Kansas and northeastern Colorado.
Madison County is part of the Norfolk, NE Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the Nebraska license plate system , Madison County is represented by the prefix 7 (the county had the seventh-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).