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  2. Transportation Manufacturing Corporation - Wikipedia

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    A plaque found in RTS made after the 1980s, featuring the TMC logo and the acronym "RTS" A 1994 TMC RTS bus still in service in 2016 for Lewis & Clark College, in Portland, Oregon. Transportation Manufacturing Corporation (TMC) was a bus manufacturer based in Roswell, New Mexico.

  3. John Ruan (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    In his native Iowa, Ruan was a major contributor in business and the development of the Des Moines metropolitan area. In the early 1970s, Ruan built the 36 story Ruan Center to house the administration of the growing number of Ruan companies. Ruan built the 33-story Marriott Hotel in 1980 and the 14-story Two Ruan Center in 1982. He was active ...

  4. Death care industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As of 2019, there are around 19,136 funeral homes that provide funeral services in the U.S. About 89.2% of them are privately owned by families or individuals. [ 22 ] Experts and analysts of the industry have estimated that the top six funeral operators control 25 to 30% of all funeral services in North America, with the top four owning between ...

  5. First call vehicle - Wikipedia

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    This is usually more economical for the funeral home when a new hearse is purchased, as opposed to purchasing a second new vehicle. The first call vehicle is sometimes operated by an outside company that has contracts with various mortuaries and funeral homes, rather than by the funeral homes. In the UK, these are known as private ambulances. [1]

  6. Survivors gather to remember 1989 Iowa plane crash - AOL

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    By Catherine Lucey DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - As he sat in a crippled airliner, Ron May braced his head between his legs and prayed for his wife, who was seven months' pregnant with their first child ...

  7. Iowa Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Enforcement ...

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    The Iowa Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Enforcement was a law enforcement agency located in the state of Iowa. Like the Iowa State Patrol, Motor Vehicle Enforcement (MVE as they are most commonly called) was a statewide agency. Their primary mission and expertise was the enforcement of laws and regulations concerning commercial ...

  8. Mom fatally shot in head, dad injured trying to help daughter ...

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    Ruth Sue Ann Robison, 45, and her spouse Tony Ray Robison, 52, both took bullets to the head when the shooting erupted at the home in Des Moines, Iowa last Friday.

  9. List of prematurely reported obituaries - Wikipedia

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    Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...