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1960 (age 63–64) Los Angeles, California, US. Occupation (s) Chairman & CEO of Harbor Freight Tools; Founder and President, The Smidt Foundation. Spouse. Susan Smidt. Eric L. Smidt (born 1960) is an American businessman. He is chairman and CEO of Harbor Freight Tools, which operates over 1,500 retail hardware stores in 48 states and generates ...
Revenue. $8 billion (2024) [ 3] Number of employees. 26,000. Website. www .harborfreight .com. Harbor Freight Tools, commonly referred to as Harbor Freight, is an American privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered in Calabasas, California. It operates a chain of retail stores, as well as an e-commerce business.
Y – Vessel, liquid cargo. The US Army Corps of Engineers has a total of 11 dredge vessels, divided into hopper and non-hopper dredges. [15] In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges.
v. t. e. Operation End Sweep was a United States Navy and United States Marine Corps operation to remove naval mines from Haiphong harbor and other coastal and inland waterways in North Vietnam between February and July 1973. The operation fulfilled an American obligation under the Paris Peace Accord of January 1973, which ended direct American ...
The New York City Harbor strike started on January 9, 1919. It involved 15,000 –16,000 workers striking after it was called by the executive committee of the Marine Workers Union. It stopped temporarily on January 13, after President Wilson requested intervention by the War Labor Board on January 11 through a telegram.
Ballard Locks. / 47.66556°N 122.39722°W / 47.66556; -122.39722. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, or Ballard Locks, is a complex of locks at the west end of Salmon Bay in Seattle, Washington's Lake Washington Ship Canal, between the neighborhoods of Ballard to the north and Magnolia to the south. [2] : 2 [3] [4] : 6.
The demand for the area's fresh fish declined during the Great Depression, and the area's fishing industry declined further when a fire destroyed Punta Gorda's major fishing dock in 1939. The Punta Gorda Fish Company was one of the few companies to survive the fire and acquired some of the fish cabins previously operated by its competitors.
A humpback whale that is missing its tail and was spotted in Washington state's inland waters likely lost its iconic flukes after becoming entangled, possibly in some kind of line or fishing gear ...