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The new department store company was completely independent from the S.S. Kresge discount department store company. [1] By 1924, Kresge was worth approximately $375,000,000 ($3.83 billion in 2009 dollars [ 2 ] ) and owned real estate of the approximate value of $100,000,000.
In 1924, with an initial gift of $1.6 million, Sebastian Kresge established the Kresge Foundation in Detroit.Twelve years earlier, he and partner John G. McCrory opened the first 5-and-10-cent store in Memphis, Tennessee, and parlayed the concept and operations into a chain of stores that were incorporated as the S.S. Kresge Company.
To really understand the difference between the L/25.5 and the L/25, we can make a similar calculation for the preceding L/25. Its powder chamber was 97.5 cm long. [24] Its diameter of 24.66 cm gives a surface of 477.61 cm 2 multiplied by 97.5 the volume of the L/25 chamber becomes 46,567 cm 3, or 46.57 dm 3. Dividing 81,46 by 46.57, we get ...
Kresge store merchandise sits in a display for the Kresge at 100 exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum in Detroit on Thu., May 2, 2024. “We’d been doing things kind of the same way for ...
The Metropolitan Center for High Technology, formerly S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, is an office building located at 2727 Second Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979.
During a surprise appearance at Tuesday evening's Kresge Foundation centennial ... “I was elected president because a bunch of 20- and 23- and 25-year-olds decided to go out and knock on doors. ...
The 15 cm Kanone 16 (15 cm K 16) was a heavy field gun used by Germany in World War I and World War II. Guns turned over to Belgium as reparations after World War I were taken into Wehrmacht service after the conquest of Belgium as the 15 cm K 429(b). It generally served on coast-defense duties during World War II.
This store had no management connection to the S.S. Kresge 5 & 10 chain based in Detroit, Michigan. [2] In 1926, Kresge replaced the original Plaut store, nicknamed "The Bee Hive," which had been built in 1891, with a larger flagship store that occupied the entire city block, between Broad and Halsey streets, and Cedar Street and Raymond Boulevard.