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In 2019 Nordam had 1,800 employees in the Tulsa area and 500 elsewhere. [2] In 2022 Nordam opened a major MRO facility at Taoyuan which will serve as their regional hub replacing operations in Singapore. [7] The Taoyuan operation is a joint venture with China Airlines. [8]
Morris left the station after a seven-year tenure in 1979, and subsequently shifted outside of the news industry to become public relations director for aerospace contractor Nordam Group. [57] [58] In 1976, channel 2 became the first television news operation in the Tulsa market to provide live remote footage for field reports.
As Tulsa expanded, so did the industry around Owasso, stimulating further growth. Industrial development proceeded through the 1980s and 1990s. Factories included American Airlines , with 9,000 employees, Nordam Group , with 700, Whirlpool , with 1,000 and MCI WorldCom with 2,200.
This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area. As of November 2012, Tulsa was home to one Fortune 1000 and two Fortune 500 companies: Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, energy companies: ONEOK (#219), and The Williams Companies, Inc. (#342). [18]
KMYZ-FM (104.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and licensed to Pryor, Oklahoma. KMYZ-FM airs an alternative rock format branded as "Z104.5 The Edge". Its studios are located at the CityPlex Towers in South Tulsa and its transmitter is in southeast Tulsa County along the Muskogee Turnpike .
After oil was discovered at Glenn Pool in adjacent Tulsa County in 1905, other strikes occurred in Creek County. The Cushing-Drumright Oil Field opened in 1912, creating boom towns Drumright, Kiefer and Oilton. By 1920, the county population had increased to 62,480. [3]
Norma Leigh Haddad was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma, in 1934, to Edwina Beatty, a schoolteacher, and Sam Haddad, a Harvard educated banker. Her paternal grandfather, George Haddad, immigrated from Lebanon.
The Oil & Gas Journal in 1918 referred to the Knights of Liberty's cases of flogging and tarring-and-feathering around the country as a concept from Tulsa and mostly justified. [99] Writer and political activist Max Eastman called the group "cowardly masked upper-class mobs". [100]