Sentences with phrase «gunpowder manufacturing»

The city got its start during World War I when the federal government established it as a gunpowder manufacturing center, hence its name.
Today Laflin & Rand's legacy continues in the Alliant Powder Company, a former subsidiary of Hercules that specializes in military gunpowder manufacturing.

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Carell hooks up with New York native Bennett Miller (whose directorial CV includes 2005's Capote and 2011's Moneyball) along with the incredibly versatile Mark Ruffalo and an ever - more watchable Channing Tatum on the set of the inauspicious Liseter Hall Farm — some 200 acres of land acquired and later expanded upon by the wealthy Du Pont family, a prominent American clan built primarily upon the manufacturing of gunpowder.
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