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Kaiser Vancouver (WA) & Portland (OR) Yards; NPS article on Bay Area shipbuilding Archived December 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine; Rosie the Riveter Trust; A guide to the Permanente Metals Corporation photograph album, 1941-1945
Vancouver: Clark: 194: Legacy Health 2005 [8] Lincoln Hospital Davenport: Lincoln: 25 V Northwest Rural Health Network Lourdes Counseling Center Richland: Benton: 32 LifePoint Health [4] Lourdes Medical Center: Pasco: Franklin: 25: IV LifePoint Health [4] Madigan Army Medical Center: Tacoma: Pierce: 205: II Military Health System 1944 Mary ...
Escort carriers at the Vancouver Shipyard in 1943 The USS Gambier Bay CVE-73, an escort carrier that was made in the Vancouver Shipyard. The Kaiser Company (Vancouver, Washington), commonly known as the Vancouver Shipyard, was an emergency shipyard constructed along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, to help meet the production demands of the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II.
Kaiser Permanente (/ ˈ k aɪ z ər p ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɛ n t eɪ /; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California.Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney R. Garfield, the organization was initially established to provide medical services at Kaiser's shipyards, steel mills and other facilities, before being opened to the ...
The cement plant was founded by Kaiser as the Kaiser Permanente Cement Plant in 1939, taking the name of the business from the Permanente Creek in whose valley it lies. Kaiser intended to use the quarry to provide the majority of the cement used in the construction of the Shasta Dam, supplying the 6 million barrels (950,000 m 3 ) of cement. [ 19 ]
Orchards was originally known as Fourth Plain. Several theories exist as to the etymology of the name, but one account states that in 1846, Dugald McTavish, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, surveyed land near the fur trading post, Fort Vancouver. McTavish described four plains in the area of thick woods and officials at the trading post ...
Cocoa was the top-performing commodity of 2024. The price of the bean surged as headwinds battered key producers. Prices are likely to stay high into 2025, analysts at ING said.
Group Health was officially registered as a corporation in Washington on December 22, 1945. [8] Group Health's founders included Thomas G. Bevan, then president of lodge 751 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at Boeing; Ella Willams, a leader in a local chapter of The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry; Addison Shoudy, R.M Mitchell, and ...