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The Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) is a nonprofit association of city and county governments and the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the bistate Kansas City region. [1] Governed by a board of directors [ 2 ] made up of local elected officials, MARC serves nine counties and 119 cities.
Patrick J. Campbell (July 22, 1918 – February 21, 1998) was a carpenter and an American labor leader. He was president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from November 1, 1982 to February 1988. Campbell was born in 1918 in New York City to Peter and Mary Campbell. His father was a city mass transit employee.
Communications Workers of America (CWA) 1947 545,638 Telecommunication, customer service, broadcasting, public sector, healthcare and other workers. 2013: CWA: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA) 1881 522,416 Building industry carpenters and millwrights. 2015: UBC: International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU ...
Made in America is the tenth studio album by the American music duo The Carpenters, released in June 1981. Karen Carpenter died less than two years later, making it their final album released in her lifetime. It reached number 52 in the US and number 12 in the UK.
The NCSRCC was chartered on March 20, 1989 by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC), one of North America's first unions. The UBC represents more than half of a million Carpenters , Floor Coverers, Lathers, Millwrights , Pile Drivers, and Industrial workers in the United States and Canada .
The Carpenters’ Company of the City and County of Philadelphia is the oldest extant craft guild in the United States. Founded in 1724, the Company consists of nearly 200 prominent Philadelphia area architects, building contractors and structural engineers and has had nearly 900 members in its almost three centuries of existence.
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Balloon framing originated in the American Mid-west near Chicago in the 1830s. It is a rare type of American historic carpentry which was exported from America. Balloon framing is very important in history as the beginning of the transition away from the centuries-long method of timber framing to the common types of wood framing now in use.