Sentences with phrase «local railroad industry»

Deming was named in honor of Mary Ann Deming Crocker, the wife of Charles Crocker, an important figure in the local railroad industry.

Deming was named in honor of Mary Ann Deming Crocker, the wife of Charles Crocker, an important figure in the local railroad industry.

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The TWU represents more than 140,000 men and women in the airline, railroad, transit, service, utility and gaming industries across the U.S., and 43,000 of them are members of Local 100 in New York City.

Many activists joined efforts to reform local government, public education, medicine, finance, insurance, industry, railroads, churches, and many other areas.

It was drawn from local firms I was a little knowledgeable of, simply because they were common: my bank, industry in my region, my cable supplier, my coffee shop, my electric company, the railroad that wakes me in the night, etc..

There are strategic regions in the US where vital industries flourished because of access to a rich grid of inland waterways, railroads and local markets.