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The famous Leonard "Cleanable" Refrigerator came about after a mishap in the Leonard home: a pail of hot cooling lard was left inside an icebox on top of a cake of ice, resulting in melted ice, a spilled pail and cooled lard spilled all over.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
The company claims to have innovated the refrigerator light, the upright freezer, and the "Air Sweep" mechanism for distributing conditioned air. In 1956, Hupp Corporation acquired Gibson. [ 2 ] In 1967 Hupp merged with White Consolidated Industries (WCI), which created the White-Westinghouse brand in 1975. [ 3 ]
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Katherine Gray (born 1965) is a Canadian glass artist and professor of art at California State University, San Bernardino. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her work includes vases , candelabras , and goblets , and some of her pieces are designed to fit inside each other.
Kelvinator ad from 1920 Kelvinator refrigerator, c. 1926. The enterprise was established on September 18, 1914, in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by engineer Nathaniel B. Wales, who introduced his idea for a practical electric refrigeration unit for the home to Edmund Copeland and Arnold Goss.
An autopsy confirmed a human head and hands were found inside a freezer at a newly bought home in western Colorado, but investigators said further testing is required to help establish the ...
The new management team achieved the turnaround reducing the number of suppliers from 15,000 to 7,000 and the number of brands being carried dropped from 168 to 16. Ward's private brands were given 95 percent of the volume compared with 40 percent in 1960. The results of these changes were lower handling costs and higher quality standards.