Grand Rapids Spectator
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Total Pages | : 568 |
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Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Grand Rapids (Mich.) |
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Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1928 |
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Author | : Norma Lewis |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738552002 |
William Haldane opened a cabinet shop in 1836, 14 years before Grand Rapids incorporated. Other furniture companies followed: Berkey and Gay, Widdicomb, Sligh, Hekman, and Phoenix were among those taking advantage of the Grand River for transportation and power, the area's abundant hardwood supply, and a growing immigrant labor pool. The furniture soon attracted national attention. In 1876, the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition proved conclusively that a river town in Michigan had indeed earned the title "Furniture City." Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower all worked at Grand Rapids-made desks. Fifteen manufacturers joined forces to build 1,000 Handley Page bombers during World War I. The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on September 2, 1945, at a table made in Grand Rapids. Despite fires, floods, strikes, depressions, and wars, Grand Rapids led the industry until the 1950s and 1960s, when the factories began moving to North Carolina. Today the area, along with nearby Holland and Zeeland, dominates the office furniture industry.
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Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Insurance |
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Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Total Pages | : 1060 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Insurance |
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Author | : Hendrik Booraem V |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Grand Rapids (Mich.) |
ISBN | : 0802869432 |
GERALD R. FORD (1913-2006), the thirty-eighth president of the United States, grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and by all accounts modeled exemplary behavior. In this biography Hendrik Booraem carefully examines that image and the reputation that Ford earned during his early years, telling about Ford's life up until his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1935. Booraem uses in-depth research of numerous written sources — plus interviews with some twenty people who personally knew Ford — to show how Jerry Ford excelled at academics and athletics, forging his way through challenges, family difficulties, economic setbacks, and more on his way to a remarkable political career. Booraem's historical portrait offers fascinating insight into the early years of this president who sought to heal the nation at a very low point in its history.
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Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Gas manufacture and works |
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Author | : Arthur Hastings Grant |
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Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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