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An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
He began with an acoustic steel guitar and moved up to an electric lap steel, a Rickenbacker with a Supro amp. [5] The family moved to Monterey and in his early teens he played in a country music band there. As a high school sophomore, he got a triple-neck Fender lap steel. His idol was guitarist Jerry Byrd and he studied and memorized Byrd's ...
The SNL was an inventory system used from 1928 to 1958 to catalog all the items the Army's Ordnance Corps issued. The AIC was used by the United States Army Ordnance Corps from January, 1942 to 1958. It listed munitions and explosives (items from SNLs P, R, S, and T), items that were considered priority issue for soldiers in combat.
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
The International Steel Agreement was instituted in 1926 in Europe and was the first international steel cartel. Its purpose was to sustain prices, and to equitably divide up quotas amongst member states and companies, which represented around two-thirds of the world's steel exports, [1] as well as to secure the member states' supplies of iron ore and coke, which were indispensable to their ...
From November 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Thomas R. Cech joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 33.5 percent return on your investment, compared to a 36.4 percent return from the S&P 500.
From November 2010 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when David Bonderman joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -15.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a 19.2 percent return from the S&P 500.
The Triple-S Management Corporation (TSM) —commonly known as Triple-S, or SSS— is an insurance holding company based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which offers a wide range of insurance products and services in Puerto Rico through its wholly owned subsidiaries. Its headquarters are located at 1441 Franklin D. Roosevelt Ave., in the San Patricio ...