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The Peoria Warehouse Historic District is a historic industrial district located to the southwest of downtown Peoria, Illinois.The district includes 68 buildings, 59 of which are considered contributing to its historic status; these buildings include warehouses and other industrial structures and were built from the 1880s through the 1920s.
The competition for track-type farm equipment increased in 1925 when the Holt Manufacturing Co. and the C. L. Best Co. of San Leandro, California, merged to form the Caterpillar Tractor Co. When wheat dropped to 25 cents a bushel in 1931, farmers could not afford new farm implements and the new Avery Power Machinery company could not pay its debts.
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Bliss later bought Williams' interest and conducted the business by himself. [3] In 1885, Eliphalet Williams Bliss, Anna M. Bliss, and William A. Porter, Frank M. Leavitt and Charles L. Hart incorporated the business with a capital of $100,000.00 divided into 4,000 shares of $25.00 each. [4]
It usually goes with the truck to unload where there is no specific handling equipment. [334] Steinbock 2,5 Y4. Feldumschlaggerät FUG 2,5t Germany: Forklift: 577: In use in all branches of the German military, entered service in 1983, the remaining number in service is unknown. Capacity of 2.5 tons. [335] Hyster H16XD9 United States: Heavy ...
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
Germantown Hills is a village in Woodford County, Illinois, approximately 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Peoria. Germantown Hills is the only incorporated community in Worth Township . As of the 2010 census , the village had a total population of 3,438. [ 2 ]
Camp Ellis was a United States World War II Army Service Forces Unit Training Center [1] and prisoner-of-war camp between the towns of Bernadotte, Ipava, and Table Grove in Fulton County, Illinois. [2]