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Great Dane, formerly known as Great Dane Trailers, is a Chicago, Illinois based manufacturer of truck dry van, refrigerated van and flatbed semi-trailers.Established in 1900 by J.P. Wheless and T.H. McMillan as the Savannah Blowpipe Company [1] in Savannah, Georgia, it has gone on to become one of the world's largest manufacturers of commercial truck trailers.
A company bought in the acquisition, Great Dane Trailers Inc., became ICC's sole remaining subsidiary after further holdings were sold off in 1988. [ 8 ] In 1989, Goldberg engineered the reverse takeover of Checker Motors Corporation of Kalamazoo, Michigan , leaving ICC in control of two subsidiaries, Checker Motors and Great Dane Trailers.
The Star Courier is an American daily newspaper published in Kewanee, Illinois.It is owned by Gannett.. The daily newspaper is the largest of Gannett's holdings in Henry County, Illinois, which also include the shopper publication Henry County Advertizer and four weekly newspapers in outlying towns: the Cambridge Chronicle of Cambridge, Galva News of Galva, Geneseo Republic of Geneseo and ...
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Wabash National was founded as a start-up in 1985 in Lafayette, Indiana and has been publicly traded since 1991. [4] [5] The company was co-founded in April 1985 by Jerry Ehrlich, formerly the president of Monon Corp., an Indiana-based trailer manufacturer.
The Ryan Round Barn was built for Laurence Ryan and completed in 1910 by German immigrant named Feurst. [citation needed] Ryan was a well-known brain surgeon in Chicago who was from Kewanee.
The company also provided the army with 5,000-US-gallon (19,000 L) fuel tank semi-trailers [9] and 12-ton semi-trailers. [10] At its plant in Fullerton, California (previously owned by Hanson Bros.) it manufactured 15-ton amphibious lighters [ 11 ] and reusable metal shipping boxes for military purposes. [ 12 ]
Kewanee Township is one of twenty-four townships in Henry County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 9,800 and it contained 4,464 housing units. As of the 2020 census, its population was 9,800 and it contained 4,464 housing units.