query: which company is bigger home depot or lowe 's

pos: Lowe's Lowe's Lowe's Companies, Inc. (), doing business as Lowe's, is an American retail company specializing in home improvement. Headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina the company operates a chain of retail stores in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. , Lowe's and its related businesses operate more than 2,390 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 310,000 people in North America. Lowe's is the second-largest hardware chain in the United States behind The Home Depot and ahead of Menards. Globally, Lowe's is also the second-largest hardware chain, again behind The Home Depot but ahead of European retailers Leroy Merlin, B&Q

pos: The Home Depot construction material, their company had the power to persuade thousands of suppliers, homebuilders and consumers to follow its lead on environment sustainability. "Who in the world has a chance to have a bigger impact on this sector than Home Depot?" asked Ron Jarvis, vice president for environmental innovation at Home Depot. This program is following The Home Depot's promise in the late 1990s to eliminate the number of sales of lumber from endangered forests in countries including Chile and Indonesia. Home Depot has since worked with environmental groups to create a variety of green programs. For example, Home Depot planted

pos: The Home Depot The Home Depot The Home Depot Inc. or Home Depot is an American home improvement supplies retailing company that sells tools, construction products, and services. The company is headquartered at the Atlanta Store Support Center in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia (with an Atlanta mailing address). It operates many big-box format stores across the United States (including all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam), all 10 provinces of Canada, and the 32 federal entities of Mexico. The MRO company Interline Brands is also owned by The Home Depot with 70 distribution centers across the

pos: The Home Depot most frequent secondary sponsor through its Husky Tools division. On June 23, 2014, the company announced it would end its NASCAR sponsorship after 2014. The Home Depot was the title sponsor of The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, home to the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer; the venue was formerly the home of Chivas USA of MLS, which folded in 2014, and the Los Angeles Riptide of Major League Lacrosse, which folded in 2008. The venue is now called StubHub Center. In 2006, The Home Depot partnered with Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering

pos: The Home Depot its online home-furnishings store, 10 Crescent Lane, shortly followed by the launch of Paces Trading Company, its online lighting store. In mid 2006, the Home Depot acquired Home Decorators Collection, which was placed as an additional brand under its Home Depot Direct division. In 2006, the Home Depot acquired Hughes Supply the largest home retailer in the United States for $3.2 billion. Hughes Supply was integrated into The Home Depot Supply to better serve business-to-business customers. The Home Depot Supply rebranded under the new name HD Supply in January 2007. Five months later The Home Depot sold HD Supply to

pos: The Home Depot been a major sponsor for Joe Gibbs Racing in NASCAR since 1999. Their arrival into the series coincided with Tony Stewart leaving the Indy Racing League to join what is now the Sprint Cup Series. Stewart drove The Home Depot-sponsored #20 car for Joe Gibbs Racing until 2008, winning 2 of his 3 series championships in the car, and was succeeded by Joey Logano, who took the car to victory lane twice. After Matt Kenseth joined the team, The Home Depot's status as the #20's primary sponsor was taken over by Dollar General, but the company still served as its

pos: The Home Depot quality home improvement items such as windows or carpets was launched in 1991 called the EXPO with success. A 480-page book "Home Improvement 1-2-3" was published in 1995. The Canadian hardware chain Aikenhead's Hardware was acquired by The Home Depot in 1994 for $150 million with a 75% share. All of the Aikenhead's Hardware stores were later converted to The Home Depot stores. By 1995, sales reached $10 billion while operating 350 stores. Former General Electric executive Robert Nardelli became CEO and President of The Home Depot in 2000. San Diego maintenance and repair supplies company Maintenance Warehouse was purchased

pos: Jay Steinfeld the Medium Business Overall category. In January 2014, Blinds.com was acquired by national home improvement retailer The Home Depot. GCC is a 20-year old technology and direct marketing organization, which specializes in driving the sales of hard-to-buy configurable products. Its e-commerce platform was built in-house and the company operates from a domestic-based contact center operation. Acquired in January 2014 by The Home Depot, this wholly owned B2B subsidiary drives seamless integration of home-improvement retail via internet, over the phone, and in physical Home Depot locations. The culture of Global Custom Commerce is highly entrepreneurial, dedicated to transforming retail as well

pos: Home Depot Smart Home Home Depot Smart Home The Home Depot Smart Home (also referred to as the Duke Smart Home) is a live-in laboratory and residence hall at Duke University sponsored by The Home Depot. In 2003, Mark Younger, an undergraduate student at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering conceived the idea in a senior thesis. By 2006, The Home Depot had announced a sponsorship of $2 million for the project. Home Depot's Senior Vice President of Merchandising stated that the Smart Home would help the company "understand the technology behind these solutions and ultimately to bring this technology to the consumer market."

pos: The Home Depot by The Home Depot in 1997 for $245 million. Maintenance Warehouse was purchased because it was a leading direct-mail marketer of maintenance, repair and operations supplies that can reach customers out of reach by The Home Depot. Atlanta-based company Apex Supply was acquired by The Home Depot in 1999. Apex Supply is a wholesale distributor of plumbing, HVAC, industrial pipe and fittings. Apex Supply and Maintenance Warehouse were rebranded in 2004 as The Home Depot Supply. In 2004, Home Depot employees at a suburban Detroit store in Harper Woods, Michigan, rejected a bid to be represented by a labor union,

pos: The Home Depot head office is located in Toronto. The Canadian unit was created with the purchase of Aikenhead's Hardware. Home Depot management had an ambitious plan to overtake its biggest competitor, RONA, which has about four times as many stores. However, some of RONA's stores are smaller than the typical Home Depot store. In terms of big box stores, the Home Depot has more stores than RONA (not including other Rona banners such as Réno Dépôt or Cashway). As of 2007, RONA pulled ahead of The Home Depot in total retail sales, due to aggressive consolidation efforts by RONA, combined with the

pos: Brock Kreitzburg would ask OJOP participants to represent themselves and the company. This included the 2006 Tournament of Roses Parade on the Home Depot float. This is an incomplete list, but these are some of the stores that Kreitzburg was able to work at while a member of the Home Depot program: The Home Depot in Wadsworth, Ohio The Home Depot in Colorado Springs, Colorado Brock Kreitzburg Brock Kreitzburg (born February 16, 1976) is an American bobsledder who has competed since 2001. A graduate from the University of Toledo and a native of Akron, Ohio, Kreitzburg has been in the US Bobsled

pos: The Home Depot record, committee assignment and leadership position," said company spokesman Jerry Shields. The CEO in this period was Bob Nardelli, a friend of U.S. President George W. Bush. Nardelli hosted a garden reception/fundraiser for Bush at his Atlanta home on May 20, 2004. Home Depot Canada is the Canadian unit of the Home Depot and one of Canada's top home improvement retailers. The Canadian operation consists of 182 stores and employs over 28,000 people in Canada. Home Depot Canada has stores in all ten Canadian provinces and serves territorial Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon through electronic means (Online Sales). The Canadian

pos: John Clendenin Program Award as a director and Chairman of Home Depot, Inc. John Clendenin John L. Clendenin was the chairman of The Home Depot. He was also a director of the company Powerwave Technologies, which ceased operations in 2013. In 2009, Powerwave Technologies paid Clendenin a total director compensation of $93,989. On October 29, 2012, Clendenin notified the Board of Directors of Powerwave that he is retiring from the Board of the Company effective December 17, 2012. In 1992, Clendenin was awarded the Silver Buffalo Award of the Boy Scouts of America. He served as National President of the Boy Scouts

pos: The Home Depot close in China in the previous two years. In September 2012, The Home Depot announced it was closing all big box stores in China. The Home Depot retained two specialty stores in China, a Home Decorators Collection Store and a paint and flooring store. As of September 16, 2012, all seven of the box stores in China had been shut down. The Home Depot has no immediate plans to further expand its specialty stores in China. The company is taking a "wait-and-see" attitude towards the Chinese market, but does not want to completely pull out because re-entry into the market

pos: The Home Depot stadium, the Georgia Dome, and serves as parking and tailgating space during Falcons' and Atlanta United FC home games and public use greenspace during non-event days. The park opened on September 11, 2018. Since 1991, the company has become a large supporter of athletics, sponsoring the United States and Canadian Olympic teams, and launching a program which offered employment to athletes that accommodates their training and competition schedules. The Home Depot ceased to be a sponsor of the Canadian Olympic Team in 2005 and ended a sponsorship program for the United States Olympic team in 2009. The Home Depot has

pos: Nelson DeCastro "Inhumans". He also provided work for DC Comics, on "Birds of Prey" and 2004's "The DC Comics Encyclopedia". His other mid-2000s work for DC included doing inks for "Superman: The Journey" and inking over John Byrne's pencils and providing his first interior color work on "Action Comics" #831. Nelson branched out into educational comics with 2005's "The Home Depot: Safety Heroes", a giveaway from the Home Depot featuring several Marvel Comics characters, as well as into Marvel's mature readers imprint, MAX, with "Doctor Spectrum", two issues of which he inked, and Marvel's Ultimate line, providing interior inks for three issues

pos: The Home Depot Home Depot's board consists of 9 members, with 8 of them being independent directors. The Home Depot Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the company created in 2002. It has contributed over $200 million in time, labor, money, and supplies to a number of causes, including Habitat for Humanity, California-based City of Hope National Medical Center, and playground construction organization KaBOOM! Home Depot supports the U.S. Military community with a 10% military discount. Since 1993, the "Team Depot" program has provided grants to veteran-based organizations and has workers from a local store do volunteer work that would benefit veterans. The

pos: The Home Depot thousands of trees at its headquarters in Atlanta to offset carbon emissions. In 2007, The Home Depot Foundation (the company's charitable foundation) committed to investing $100 million over the next decade to build over 100,000 green affordable homes and plant 3,000,000 trees. Additionally, The Home Depot promotes compact fluorescent light bulbs in its stores. As part of this effort, the company created the largest recycling program in the United States for the bulbs. In March 2013, Home Depot locations in Canada stopped accepting compact fluorescent light bulbs for recycling. In 2002, The Home Depot joined PBS as a sponsor of

pos: The Home Depot "This Old House" and "Ask This Old House". In 2003, The Home Depot became a sponsor for "Trading Spaces". Company co-founder Arthur Blank purchased the Atlanta Falcons franchise of the National Football League in February 2002; Blank later acquired an expansion franchise in Major League Soccer, Atlanta United FC, in April 2014 with the soccer club beginning play in March 2017. The Home Depot made no formal association with the Falcons until April 2017, when The Home Depot acquired the naming rights to the park adjacent to Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Home Depot Backyard occupies the site of the Falcons' previous

pos: The Home Depot 2003, after merging with Sodimac, all stores adopted that brand. The company has since expanded across Latin America very profitably and successfully. It's currently the N°1 Home Improvement company in South America. In 2002, Argentina's Home Depots were bought out by Chilean company Cencosud and rebranded Easy stores, a company that has also expanded across South America. It's currently the N°2 Home Improvement company in South America. The Home Depot was embroiled in whistleblower litigation brought under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) law. In July 2005, former employee Michael Davis, represented by attorney Mark D. Schwartz filed a whistleblower lawsuit against

pos: The Home Depot Home Depot has partnered with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency's Ready Georgia campaign, leading both supplies and facility use to this statewide effort to increase emergency preparedness among Georgia's children. The company also provided ready kits and other prizes for an art and essay contest for Georgia elementary school students. In 2005, The Home Depot was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush. In March 2018, the company donated $50 million to train 20,000 people as construction workers over the next decade. The Home Builders Institute will use the

pos: The Home Depot would be very costly. The Home Depot's lack of success in China has been attributed to the disconnect between The Home Depot's do-it-yourself ethos and Chinese culture. In 2012, the Home Depot conceded that it misread the country's appetite for do-it-yourself products. As a spokeswoman for the company said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, "The market trend says this is more of a do-it-for-me culture". Culturally, manual labor is seen as an activity for lower-class citizens, and some have speculated that The Home Depot could have capitalized on this by offering a do-it-for-me model to Chinese consumers.

pos: Powell v. Home Depot USA, Inc. permission. In 2007, Mr. Powell sued The Home Depot for patent infringement. After a jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Powell was awarded damages totaling $20.8 million. The lawsuit said that The Home Depot alerted Powell of a safety issue with the saw that was causing injuries. Powell, who had been a 20-year independent contractor with the company, came up with the solution, a "Safe Hands" device, to protect Home Depot's employees. After a dispute about pricing, The Home Depot showed Safe Hands to another supplier and asked them to copy it. This

pos: Positec Positec The Positec Tool Corporation (or simply Positec) is a manufacturing company that specializes in the production of power tools and lawn and garden equipment. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Suzhou, China and the head of its North American division is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Positec is known for its production of the Rockwell Tools and WORX brands which can be found in retailers like Lowe's, The Home Depot, Costco, and Walmart. The Positec Tool Corporation was founded by Don Gao in 1994 in Suzhou, China. The term "Positec" is a play on "Positive Technology." The company

pos: The Home Depot Chinese consumers prefer to see a finished product, such as a renovated room, rather than light bulbs and lumber. The same issue does not exist outside of China, especially in Canada, where Chinese Home Depot advertisements and store signage can be found in areas with large Chinese demographics. There were reports that The Home Depot was interested in acquiring B&Q, the largest DIY retailer in the United Kingdom, Ireland and China. Speculation of a takeover began in 1999 when the retailer Asda was purchased by Walmart. The Home Depot would have to acquire Kingfisher plc, B&Q's parent company, to acquire

neg: Old Depot Museum in Ottawa and Franklin County" was an exhibit about local baseball teams in Franklin County. The exhibit included information about school teams, company teams, and competitive traveling teams. Along with the exhibit was a presentation by Phil S. Dixon about Negro Leagues Baseball and the Kansas City Monarchs. The Monarchs played in barnstorm games in Ottawa at least five times. The exhibit also featured a documentary screening of "Town Teams: Bigger than Baseball" at the local Plaza Cinema movie theatre, which focuses on the importance of small local baseball teams across Kansas. In 2007, the Old Depot Museum had a

neg: Pasadena, California Bissell, is a four-story Victorian home, on the border of South Pasadena. Today the Bissell House is a bed and breakfast. Thaddeus S. C. Lowe's home of was on South Orange Grove. The house included a sixth story solarium which he converted into an observatory. Lowe was also a generous patron of the astronomical sciences. He started a water-gas company, founded the Citizens Bank of Los Angeles, built numerous ice plants, and purchased a Pasadena opera house. He also established the Mount Lowe Railway in the mountains above Pasadena and eventually lost his fortune. The brilliant, but troubled, rocket scientist

neg: Edwin S. Lowe their yacht. Lowe highlighted its origins in naming the game – Yahtzee. In 1959, Lowe produced the "Renaissance Chess Set" which featured highly detailed chess pieces based on the Renaissance period. The design of these chessmen has made them popular with collectors. Milton Bradley Company purchased E. S. Lowe Company in 1973 for $26 million. In 1963, Lowe opened the 450-room Tally Ho hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. It was the only major hotel in Nevada without a casino, as Lowe believed that there were some tourists to the city who were not interested in gambling. Because of low

neg: Edwin S. Lowe Edwin S. Lowe Edwin S. Lowe (1910February 23, 1986) was a U.S. salesman, toymaker, game entrepreneur and real estate developer whose promotion of a game he renamed Bingo made it popular as a national pastime and fundraising activity for churches and schools. His company the E. S. Lowe Company produced bingo games and materials in addition to plastic toys and the dice game Yahtzee. He later worked in film and stage production, including the Broadway 1981 play "A Talent for Murder", featuring Claudette Colbert. Lowe also opened the Tally Ho hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in 1963. Lowe was

neg: Edwin S. Lowe Lowe Company for the production of his Bingo game cards, which initially were released as 24-card sets. The company later increased the number of variations to more than 6,000 card combinations, adding to the game’s popularity. E. S. Lowe produced miniature chess and checker game sets that circulated widely among U.S. service personnel in World War II. The company continued to produce games and plastic toys after the war, including a boxed toy casino set called Monte Carlowe. In 1956, he bought rights from a Canadian couple who approached him with a concept of a game that they played on

neg: Mark D. Schwartz blowers, which is now the focus of his private, one-man "boutique" law firm in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, along with corporate fraud. Schwartz was involved in litigation against Home Depot, defending Michael Davis, a whistleblower whom the company terminated. According to a May 18, 2007 story in the New York Post, Home Depot employees testified that employees were encouraged to routinely overcharge vendors for damaged or defective merchandise. It was revealed that Home Depot even established a quota of overcharges that employees had to meet. His most high-profile case before Home Depot was the probate case involving the estate of the

neg: Edwin S. Lowe revenue caused by the lack of a casino, the hotel closed later that year, with Lowe stating that it was a mistake to open without a casino. His last wife was Barbara (Zolnerowich) Lowe. He had one daughter Gail Ann Lowe Haymes Maidman with Jeanette Marmott Lowe, Gail. He maintained a home at Quogue, Long Island, New York, but died at his Manhattan residence on February 23, 1986 at the age of 75. Edwin S. Lowe Edwin S. Lowe (1910February 23, 1986) was a U.S. salesman, toymaker, game entrepreneur and real estate developer whose promotion of a game he renamed

neg: Ian Lowe "Living in the Hothouse", "Why vs Why: Nuclear Power", "A Voice of Reason: Reflections on Australia", "Bigger or Better? Australia's Population Debate" and "The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia". In April 2015 Lowe was appointed to the Expert Advisory Committee for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission in South Australia. Ian Lowe sees the nuclear power option for electricity generation as being risky and unworkable. He says nuclear power installations peaked last century and in the past 20 years, retirements, cancellations and deferments have outnumbered new reactor construction. Lowe says nuclear power is too expensive, with insurmountable problems associated with waste

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Lowe Railway into the hills above Altadena. The railway opened on July 4, 1893 and was met with quick interest and success. Lowe continued construction toward Oak Mountain, renamed Mount Lowe, at an exhausting rate, both physically and financially. By 1899 Lowe had gone into receivership and eventually lost the railway to Jared S. Torrance. Lowe's fortunes had been all but lost, and he lived out his remaining days at his daughter's home in Pasadena where he died at age 80. Thaddeus Lowe was born August 20, 1832 to Clovis and Alpha Green Lowe in Jefferson Mills, Coos County, New

neg: Edwin S. Lowe born in Poland, the eldest son of an Orthodox rabbi, and studied in Palestine before relocating to the United States at the age of eighteen. While working as a traveling toy salesman in December 1929, Lowe encountered a group at a Georgia carnival engaged in a game called Beano. Returning to his Brooklyn, NY, home, he organized a game with several friends, one of whom became so excited at winning, she shouted "Bingo!" The popularity of the game among his acquaintances prompted Lowe to print game cards, which he later sold under the name Bingo. He established the E. S.

neg: Saints' Roost Museum is also the home of the S.W. Lowe House, a Panhandle ranching landmark since 1904 built in the Queen Anne-Victorian style with elegant furnishings. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Lowe House is three blocks south of U.S. Highway 287 at the corner of Taylor Street and Fifth Avenue. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saints' Roost Museum The Saints' Roost Museum in Clarendon, Texas, United States, features heirlooms from Panhandle ranches, farms, and businesses as well as a renovated railroad depot and a collection of materials from the Red River War. The

neg: Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad Depot and Office Building NRHP nomination, "Its design and durability indicate the confidence with which the new company began its operations and the importance which the railroad company once placed on it s passenger business." The depot served passengers from 1907 until passenger service was discontinued in 1966. The railroad's offices moved away in 1968 and the depot was sold to the city of Teague in 1979. It became the Burlington and Rock Island Railroad museum in 1970. It is also a Texas State Antiquities Landmark. Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad Depot and Office Building The Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad Depot and Office

neg: Stephen Lowe (playwright) toured throughout the country in 2011 to 2013 and again in 2015 . Many of his plays were first produced in his home-town at Nottingham Playhouse, at Lakeside Arts Centre or by Lowe’s own company, Meeting Ground Theatre Company. Lowe moved back to Nottingham in 1985 to start Meeting Ground, with a group including his wife Tanya Myers. In February 2017, a revival of Touched was staged at Nottingham Playhouse, starring Vicky McClure. This new production celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the original production at the same theatre. Lowe has worked with many leading directors including Bill Alexander, Alan Ayckbourn,

neg: Nakusp and Slocan Railway been completed from Nakusp, along Slocan Lake and up the valley to Three Forks. When the K&S connected to Sandon in 1895, which was growing into the bigger community in the area, the CPR decided to extend the line to Sandon by a extension. The N&S and the K&S were aggressively competitive for the ore produced by the mines in the area. At one point, K&S demolished the CPR depot after it was built on contested land. In 1912, with the mining slowing down, the CPR bought K&S and built a new line up Carpenter Creek to the pass and

neg: Lowe Enterprises company also had 38 partners, employees who had risen through the ranks and become financial investors in the company. This was up from 32 partners in 2000. As of November 2013, Lowe had developed or managed more than $21 billion in assets. Its Destination Hotels & Resorts division owned or operated 35 hotels, resorts and golf clubs, which made it the third largest hospitality management company in the country. Lowe Enterprises operates in the hotel, industrial, office, residential, and retail real estate sectors. It has four divisions: The Real Estate Group, Lowe Enterprises Investors, the Hospitality Group, and Distressed Asset

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe wind-aided brush fire on Echo Mountain in 1905, which wiped out everything except the observatory and the astronomer's cabin; a Rubio Canyon flash flood in 1909 that destroyed the Pavilion; and an electrical fire that razed the Tavern in 1936. The line was abandoned after the Los Angeles deluge of March 1938. Lowe died at his daughter's Pasadena, California, home at age 80 after a few years of failing health. Lowe was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California, Next to him lies his wife Leontine, who died a year later. Also buried near the Lowe monument are his

neg: Nick Lowe Practice", issued the next year, included "Milk and Alcohol", written by Lowe and Gypie Mayo. This song and "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" are the only Lowe compositions to reach the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. Because the two main singers in Rockpile had recording contracts with different record labels and managers, albums were always credited to either Lowe or Edmunds, so there is only one official Rockpile album, 1980's "Seconds of Pleasure", which was not released until the waning days of the collaboration. "Seconds of Pleasure" featured the Lowe songs "When I Write the Book"

neg: Kelvin Thomson donations by developers received backing from the Melbourne "Age". In 2012 he voted against the Marriage Equality Amendment Bill. In 2012 Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe, president of the Australian Conservation Foundation, examined Labor's views on population and environment in his book "Bigger or Better?" Lowe found Labor's stated and de facto population policies, like those of the Liberal Party, to be confused and inconsistent. Lowe argued that these were distorted by a pro-growth ideology that was in conflict with the evidence, and by a failure to understand the infrastructure costs of rapid population growth. By contrast he discussed and commended

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe Held to be Most Useful to Mankind. In 1873, Lowe developed and patented the Lowe's water gas process which is a modification of the water gas process by which large amounts of hydrogen enriched gas could be generated for residential and commercial use in heating and lighting. Unlike the common coal gas, or coke gas which was used in municipal service, this gas provided a more efficient heating fuel that was also suitable for illumination. The basic water gas reaction is: The Lowe process is a three-stage modified water gas process in which 'blue' water gas is modified by addition

neg: Cracked (magazine) a third of "Mad"s, with the overall total generally rising or falling along with the bigger magazine's fortunes. But at its nadir in the 2000s, this sales figure plunged to around 25,000–35,000 per bi-monthly issue, or about one-eighth of "Mad"s monthly circulation, which had also plummeted from its mid-1970s peak of over 2 million per issue. In late 1999, "Cracked"s then-parent company, Globe Communications (publisher of the national tabloid "The Globe"), was sold to American Media Inc., the company that publishes the tabloids "The National Enquirer" and the "Weekly World News". American Media's primary interest in the deal was in

neg: Bobby Lowe Star game in Briggs Stadium, Detroit. In December 1951, Lowe died at his home in Detroit at the age of 86. He was posthumously inducted into the Lawrence County Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. , or Retrosheet Bobby Lowe Robert Lincoln Lowe (July 10, 1865 – December 8, 1951), nicknamed "Link", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach and scout. He played for the Boston Beaneaters (1890–1901), Chicago Cubs (1902–1903), Pittsburgh Pirates (1904), and Detroit Tigers (1904–1907). Lowe was the first player in Major League history to hit four home runs in a game, a feat which

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe that bore his name. Lowe made a new home in Norristown, Pennsylvania where he continued with his scientific endeavors with hydrogen gas, improving upon and patenting the water gas process by which high volumes of the volatile fuel could be made from passing steam over hot coal. The industry revolutionized home heating and lighting along the eastern seaboard. He held several patents on ice making machines, including his perfected "Compression Ice Machine" which would revolutionize the cold storage industry. He even discovered that gas burning through a platinum mantle produced a bright illumination (as later found in the Coleman lantern).

neg: Zach Lowe join Grantland as an NBA analyst. In 2015, after the closing of Grantland, his contract was picked-up by Grantland's parent company, ESPN. In 2016, Lowe was pursued by Bleacher Report but ultimately re-signed with ESPN on a multi-year contract. Lowe hosts a weekly podcast called "The Lowe Post", which features mainly casual chats with other journalists, players, or coaches/GMs about the NBA. He also writes a weekly NBA article during the season for ESPN headlined as "Ten Things I Like And Don't Like, Including...". Lowe moderated the 2016 Basketball Analytics panel of the MIT-Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Lowe is known

neg: Edward Lowe Martin Cincinnati, Ohio. After a year, Martin became a partner in the business and remained there until 1868. In 1868 Martin moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he was the head of the E. L. Martin & Company wholesale liquor business and organized the Kansas City Distilling Company. He became mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1873. Martin was also active in the Board of Education in which he served from 1875 to 1896. Edward Lowe Martin is buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri. Missouri Valley Special Collections : Home at www.kchistory.org Missouri Valley Special Collections Local History -

neg: Lowe Enterprises Lowe Enterprises Lowe Enterprises is a real estate investment firm based in Los Angeles. Since its founding, the company has acquired, constructed, or managed more than $21 billion in real estate assets. Its subsidiary, Destination Hotels & Resorts, was the third largest hospitality management company in the United States in 2013. Lowe Enterprises was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1972 by Robert J. Lowe, Sr., and three business partners as a real estate investment and development firm. It developed or managed $6.7 billion in assets by 2000: $1 billion in hotels, $3 billion in new real estate development, and

neg: C. Kelly Wright as Caroline, in Caroline, or Change; as Elizabeth Keckley in A Civil War Christmas; and as Mame Wilks in Radio Golf, all of which earned her a Critic's Award for Best Female in a Play. January 2017, C. Kelly Wright plays Bigger Thomas' mother in "Native Son". In a new adaptation by Nambi E. Kelly for the Marin Theatre Company with artistic director Jasson Minadakis. The play is based on Richard Wright's 1940's best selling novel. The novel is about poverty in the 1930s through Bigger Thomas in a poor area of Chicago's South Side. In 2012 she won the

neg: Robert Lowe Robert Lowe Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, GCB, PC (4 December 1811 – 27 July 1892), British statesman, was a pivotal but often forgotten figure who shaped British politics in the latter half of the 19th century. He held office under William Ewart Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1868 and 1873 and as Home Secretary between 1873 and 1874. Lowe is remembered for his work in education policy, his opposition to electoral reform and his contribution to modern UK company law. Gladstone appointed Lowe as Chancellor expecting him to hold down public spending. Public spending rose, and Gladstone

neg: 1269th Engineer Combat Battalion (United States) to the 3rd Reinforcement Depot, near Marburg. On 4 August, B Company personnel were transferred to the 3rd Reinforcement Depot, except for the company CP, which moved to Heidelberg. On 5 August, A and C Companies followed suit. Then on 6 August, the Battalion HQ and H&S Company CP, plus some other personnel, were transferred to the Reinforcement Depot. Most of Company A troops were moved by train in 40 & 8 boxcars dating from the 1st World War from 14 through 16 August to Camp Tophat near Antwerp, by way of Kassel, Maastricht, and Liege. Other companies of the

neg: KaBOOM! (non-profit organization) Home Depot have created procedures for environmental-friendly building titled "Guidelines for Eco-Friendly Service Projects". Organizations and community leaders can utilize the Guide when planning construction or building projects. Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of the Internet auction company eBay, contributed $5 million to KaBOOM! for the establishment of its website and to support the organization's National Campaign for Play, which advocates the importance and health benefits of play to legislators and policy experts. In addition to Home Depot, KaBOOM! has worked in collaboration with such corporations as Target, Fannie Mae and Ben & Jerry's, which created an ice cream flavor

neg: Sidney and Lowe Railroad Sidney and Lowe Railroad The Sidney and Lowe Railroad is a switching line that runs between Sidney, Nebraska, a connection with BNSF Railway at Huntsman, Nebraska and a connection with Union Pacific Railroad at Brownson, Nebraska. It was founded in 1980 by Oscar J. Glover, President and CEO of Glover Group, Inc. to service a railroad car maintenance and repair facility that Mr. Glover had built in the area near the U.S. Army's Big Sioux Depot. Mr. Glover later jointly built a grain storage and transfer facility that was serviced by the Sidney & Lowe Railroad. It became a common

neg: Lowe Enterprises Services. The Hospitality Group consists of two subsidiaries, Destination Hotels & Resorts (a hotel and resort management company), and Lowe Destination Development (which constructs, or invests in the construction of, luxury resorts). Lowe Enterprises generates some funds of its own for real estate investment. However, most of its financing comes from a wide range of sources, such as government entities, real estate investment trusts, other real estate development companies, and institutional investors such as hedge funds and pension funds. The company prefers to rely on a wide range of financial sources to reduce risk. The company tends to invest in

neg: Allen Lowe mind like those of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Mose Allison or Lou Reed." Lowe released a series of old and new American recordings of work which he composed and directed. He worked with Acadia Recording Company to mix a live session recording from New York City in 2015. Allen Lowe Allen Lowe is a composer, musician, music historian, sound restoration specialist, and author. He plays alto saxophone, c-melody saxophone, and guitar, and has recorded with major figures in jazz including Julius Hemphill, Marc Ribot, Roswell Rudd, Don Byron, Doc Cheatham, and David Murray. He has also produced a series of

neg: Lowe Enterprises large projects with a view to retaining or managing the property in the long term. As a privately held company, Lowe Enterprises does not report its revenues or profits. However, in 2000, Robert J. Lowe, Sr. told the "Baltimore Sun" that the company had "record earnings" in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Lowe also claimed that institutional investors tended to see a return of 20 percent to 25 percent in the 1990s. In 2002, the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP) named Lowe Enterprises its Developer of the Year. In 1999, Bleecker P. Seaman III was promoted from vice

neg: Jack Lowe Sr. because he held part-time jobs to help defray expenses. Lowe left Rice with a degree in electrical engineering and was assigned to the General Electric Company (GE)’s training facility at Schenectady, New York. GE had formed an Air Conditioning Department at Bloomfield, New Jersey in 1932, and Lowe was transferred there after completing training at Schenectady. The management put him to work at selling and overseeing the installation of large commercial units in the region just south of the Great Lakes. In 1938 at the age of twenty-five, Lowe was chosen to superintend the installation of an air conditioning system

neg: Lowe Enterprises ceased payments on debt for its Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, and for its Sheraton Hotel in Universal City, California. In July 2010, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America took a "substantial" but non-controlling interest in Lowe Enterprises Investors. The insurance company also agreed to provide Lowe Enterprises with $200 million for investment purposes. Lowe's said it would seek to purchase or invest in distressed or undervalued properties in the hotel, industrial, office, and retail sectors. By 2012, Lowe Enterprises had developed or managed more than $17.5 billion in assets, and had more than 9,000 employees. The

neg: Jack Lowe Sr. could create well-being for the growing number of people who were a part of it. In the early 1970s, the company was not exceptionally productive, and while sales were up, income was not. Morale was low in some areas, and lowe came up with the idea of meeting with small groups of employees at his home. Before each meeting, participants received the usual packet of information about the company, but they also got a copy of “Robert K. Greenleaf’s booklet, “The Servant as Leader.” The result of the employee meetings was The People Objective which stated how employees thought Texas

neg: Rickel center concept and created Villager's Hardware, which were similar to Rickel stores in their size and setup and included some scaled back versions of Home Depot departments like its plant nursery. The first location, coincidentally, opened in the former East Brunswick, New Jersey store Rickel occupied for thirty-plus years. Home Depot would open several more Villager's stores in the next year, but the company decided to discontinue the brand shortly thereafter in favor of rebranding the stores to the parent brand. In 2008, Home Depot closed the East Brunswick store and most of its fellow smaller stores, citing the bursting

neg: Basel–Biel/Bienne railway historic Delémont roundhouse is located in Delémont. This former locomotive depot/roundhouse with a turntable is now the home of the "Historische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft" (Historical Railway Company, HEG), which focuses on the rescue, restoration and operation of historic Swiss rolling stock. The Delémont–Delle railway branches off at the station, passing through Porrentruy and Boncourt. It has been served hourly by the S3 service of the Regio S-Bahn Basel since December 2004. Trains must reverse in the station to continue towards Biel. After leaving the plain of Delémont, the line reaches Courrendlin and from there passes through the cliffs at Choindez and

neg: Bobby Lowe Bobby Lowe Robert Lincoln Lowe (July 10, 1865 – December 8, 1951), nicknamed "Link", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach and scout. He played for the Boston Beaneaters (1890–1901), Chicago Cubs (1902–1903), Pittsburgh Pirates (1904), and Detroit Tigers (1904–1907). Lowe was the first player in Major League history to hit four home runs in a game, a feat which he accomplished in May 1894. He also tied or set Major League records with 17 total bases in a single game and six hits in a single game. Lowe was a versatile player who played at every position

neg: Yardbirds Home Center Home Depot company. But it was announced they too will close. Late in January 2009 Home Depot announced the closing of all 5 YardBirds Stores along with the entire EXPO division. The closures were due to mismanagement by the new parent company. Yardbirds Home Center Yardbirds Home Center is a defunct chain of home improvement stores based in Petaluma, California, United States. Their trademark colors were yellow and white. Their mascot was a white buzzard with yellow overalls. These stores were not affiliated with the Yard Birds stores based out of Chehalis, Washington that used a black bird with a

neg: Harold Lowe in Vladivostok during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, attaining the rank of Lieutenant, RNR. After the war he returned to serve with International Mercantile Marine ships and the White Star Line, retiring in 1931 to Deganwy with his family. During World War II he volunteered his home as a sector post and served as an Air Raid Warden until ill health obligated him to take to a wheelchair. Lowe died of hypertension on 12 May 1944 at the age of 61. His body was buried at Llandrillo-yn-Rhos churchyard in Rhos-on-Sea in North Wales. In 1979's "S. O. S. Titanic"

neg: Samsung Galaxy S II device another variant of the South Korean model of the Galaxy S II HD LTE. One difference between the South Korean model and the Bell Mobility model is the lack of a physical home button, instead, four capacitive buttons are used, one of which directly replaces the physical home button. The specification of the device is identical to the South Korean model. However, different frequencies bands are enabled on this device. The Rogers Galaxy S II LTE (Model SGH-I727R) is identical to the AT&T Skyrocket, and features a larger screen 4.52", a bigger battery 1,850 mAh, and a different 1.5

neg: North Bank Depot Buildings North Bank Depot Buildings The North Bank Depot Buildings, located in central Portland, Oregon, United States, are a pair of buildings formerly used as a freight warehouse and passenger terminal for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SP&S). Formed in 1905, the SP&S was commonly known as the North Bank Road (or North Bank road, "road" being short for railroad) during the period in which these buildings were in use. The Portland buildings' passenger facilities were also used by the Oregon Electric Railway after that railway was acquired by the SP&S. Located in what is now known as the Pearl

neg: John S. Lowe John S. Lowe John S. Lowe is the George W. Hutchison Professor of Energy Law and former Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law. He specializes in energy law. Lowe received his B.A. in 1963 from Denison University and his LL.B. in 1966 from Harvard University. He was a Maxwell Fellow in Malawi from 1966 to 1969. Lowe practiced law in Columbus, Ohio from 1970 to 1975. He was assistant professor, and later associate professor, at the University of Toledo from 1975 to 1978. He was professor and associate director of the

neg: In Which We Serve together in fifteen-hundred fathoms", he notes that these losses should inspire them to fight even harder in the battles to come. The ship's company is then told they are to be broken up and sent as replacements to other ships that have lost men. Captain Kinross then shakes hands with all the ratings as they leave the depot. When the last man goes, the emotionally tired captain turns to his remaining officers, silently acknowledges them before walking away. An epilogue then concludes: bigger and stronger ships are being launched to avenge the "Torrin"; Britain is an island nation with a

neg: Jesse Lowe Grove Farm." Lowe was a founding member of the Omaha Claim Club in 1854, and assisted Alfred D. Jones in the first survey of the city. In 1855 he built the first bank building in Omaha at 12th and Farnam Streets in present-day Downtown Omaha. Lowe also invested in the Council Bluffs and Nebraska Ferry Company, which was the foremost ferry company in Omaha for more than 25 years. Lowe was married to Sophia Hoppin on July 3, 1856, in Burlington, New Jersey. They had four children, including Frederick Brown Lowe, Charlotte Augusta Lowe, Jesse Lowe Jr., and Tilghman Howard

neg: Reading TMD once it is delivered. With the introduction of class 387’s, the Depot will also be the home of the new Electrostar Fleet for GWR. The Depot will also be managed by GWR and Bombardier to carry out light maintenance/heavy maintenance and overhauling of the Electrostar fleet. The old depot was subsequently demolished apart from two Great Western Railway era water towers, one of which has been donated to the West Somerset Railway (WSR). The site is being used as part of the southern approach to the new flyover for primarily fast passenger trains so that their movements do not conflict

neg: Lowe Mill Places in 2011. 1900 Arthur H. Lowe, president of the New England Manufactures’ Association, arrived in Huntsville. Lowe planned arrangements for the incorporation of Lowe Manufacturing Company and the construction of Huntsville's fifth mill, but left abruptly. It was Pratt, in 1900, who incorporated Lowe Manufacturing Company. Soon after Pratt and O’Shaughnessy agreed to terms for the construction of Lowe Mill, the fifth cotton mill in Huntsville. 1901 Lowe Mill opened for textile production. D.C. Finney is put in charge of the plant acting as agent for Arthur H. Lowe. The company provided housing for mill workers, whose job was

neg: Independence station 1979. Independence station Independence, also known as Missouri Pacific Depot, is an Amtrak train station in Independence, Missouri, United States. The station was originally built in 1913 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and is also known as the "Truman Depot," because it was the final stop in Harry S. Truman's 1948 Whistlestop Campaign where 8,500 admirers welcomed Truman in January 1953 when he returned home after leaving office. Today, the depot is an Amtrak stop and is said to be home to the Jackson County Genealogical Society Research Library. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places

neg: Independence station Independence station Independence, also known as Missouri Pacific Depot, is an Amtrak train station in Independence, Missouri, United States. The station was originally built in 1913 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, and is also known as the "Truman Depot," because it was the final stop in Harry S. Truman's 1948 Whistlestop Campaign where 8,500 admirers welcomed Truman in January 1953 when he returned home after leaving office. Today, the depot is an Amtrak stop and is said to be home to the Jackson County Genealogical Society Research Library. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in

neg: Pete Waterman locomotive fireman based at Wolverhampton (Stafford Road) depot. In 2002 he said of his time working for British Railways, "I loved every minute of it. The squalor was unreal, but the camaraderie was phenomenal." After closure of the depot in 1963, Waterman chose to follow a career in music, being inspired by The Beatles. To supplement his income as a DJ, he became a gravedigger and then an apprentice at General Electric Company, becoming a trade union official. Building a record collection through rare US imports, his DJ work began to take him across the UK, entertaining bigger crowds with

neg: Lowe's Market Lowe's Market Lowe's Market is a regional supermarket chain, primarily in West Texas and South Texas and throughout New Mexico. The company also operates stores in Colorado and Arizona. The company's home office is in Littlefield, Texas. Lowe's Market (not to be confused with Lowes Foods, a North Carolina-based supermarket chain) traces its history to E.M. "Bud" Lowe who sold candy and sundries from the back of a truck in Littlefield, Texas in the 1940s. In 1964, Bud Lowe opened the first Lowe's Market, a small grocery store, in Olton, Texas. The company began the process of gradual expansion into

neg: Rachel Lowe Dolan saw sketches of the brand in her flat after she pitched to him on "Twitter". Since losing her company RTL Games Ltd in 2009, Lowe now has two original businesses under her company She Who Dares UK Ltd. Rachel Lowe Rachel Tanya Lowe MBE (born 1977) is an English board games developer and creator of fashion brand "She Who Dares". She attended the University of Portsmouth in order to earn a law degree. As a student she had a part-time job as a taxi driver which is when she came up with the idea of the board game "Destination

neg: Party of One his 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up." All songs written by Nick Lowe except as noted. Party of One Party of One is an album by English singer-songwriter Nick Lowe. Produced by Dave Edmunds, it was released in 1990 by Reprise Records and reissued with altered cover art and two bonus tracks in 1995 by Upstart Records. "Party of One" is one of only two Nick Lowe solo albums with no cover songs, as it is made up entirely of songs written or co-written by Lowe (the other album is 1982's "Nick the Knife"). One of the songs on

neg: Lowe Enterprises president and chief financial officer of Destination Hotels & Resorts to executive vice president and chief operating officer of Lowe Enterprises Investors. Seaman was promoted in 2010 to co-CEO of Lowe Enterprises Investors. Brad Howe also serves as co-CEO. John B. Platt III stepped down as CEO of the Hospitality Group in 2008. He was replaced by Robert J. Lowe, Jr. Lowe Enterprises Lowe Enterprises is a real estate investment firm based in Los Angeles. Since its founding, the company has acquired, constructed, or managed more than $21 billion in real estate assets. Its subsidiary, Destination Hotels & Resorts, was

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe likely after the character Thaddeus Constantine Sobieski (Tadeusz Kosciuszko) in an 1803 novel "Thaddeus of Warsaw" by Scottish author Jane Porter. It is confused about his life around the age of ten whether his mother had died and Clovis married Mary Randall, or if Lowe was sent away to another farm during which time his mother died and his father remarried. He apparently did work for another farm owned by the Plaisteds, but whether or not he lived there is uncertain. Clovis and Mary had seven more children, but there is a timeline confusion that may indicate she already had

neg: Sidney and Lowe Railroad carrier in 1982 and was purchased by Progress Rail Service in 1996. Sidney and Lowe Railroad The Sidney and Lowe Railroad is a switching line that runs between Sidney, Nebraska, a connection with BNSF Railway at Huntsman, Nebraska and a connection with Union Pacific Railroad at Brownson, Nebraska. It was founded in 1980 by Oscar J. Glover, President and CEO of Glover Group, Inc. to service a railroad car maintenance and repair facility that Mr. Glover had built in the area near the U.S. Army's Big Sioux Depot. Mr. Glover later jointly built a grain storage and transfer facility that

neg: British Army during the Victorian Era regiments) had more than one battalion. Establishments varied but when serving at home, most line or highland battalions consisted of a headquarters, six field companies and four depot companies. One of the field companies was designated the grenadier company, and another was designated the light company. Rifle, light and fusilier regiments that historically lacked grenadier and light companies had a slightly different establishment. The establishments of battalions serving overseas was enlarged to allow for losses to disease or on campaign that could not be quickly replaced from the depot in Britain. Most infantry wore scarlet coatees or tailless jackets, with

neg: The Home Depot This includes signage, advertising, awards and even a life-size costume for stores to rent out. Homer has a wife, named Daisy. Home Depot stores average 105,000 ft (9,755 m) in size and are organized warehouse-style, stocking a large range of supplies. Home Depot's two largest stores are located in Vauxhall, New Jersey, which encompasses 217,000 ft of space, and in Anaheim Hills, California where it encompasses 204,000 ft. The company color is a bright orange (PMS 165, CMYK 60M100Y, HEX FF6600), on signs, equipment and employee aprons. It was announced in August 2014 that Craig Menear will take over for

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe well as products which operated on hydrogen gas. In 1887, Lowe moved to Los Angeles and in 1890 to Pasadena, California, where he built a 24,000 square foot (2200 m) mansion. He started a water-gas company, founded the Citizens Bank of Los Angeles, established several ice plants, and bought a Pasadena opera house. Early Pasadenans always had a dream of a scenic mountain railroad to the crest of the San Gabriel Mountains. It was one David J. Macpherson, a civil engineer graduate of Cornell University, who had the general plans for just such a railroad. He was introduced to Prof.

neg: Tainui Group Holdings are brand new low-emission buses built locally in New Zealand. The company said it would invest $40 million in new vehicles and equipment as well as establishing two new depot facilities, providing over 250 new driver and management jobs. GoBus also provides school bus services, special needs transport as well as some tour and charter services. GoBus has about 360 urban service buses in its fleet of over 1600 vehicles, and employ In October 1998, Tainui invested in the Auckland Warriors for $3.5 million along with a consortium that included Graham Lowe and Malcolm Boyle, under the company Rugby League

neg: Red Brick Road Red Brick Road The Red Brick Road is a Soho, London based advertising agency. It is best known for producing advertisements for Tesco during the late 2000s, including the well known slogan "Every little helps". The company was created in 2006 by retired Lowe Worldwide executive Sir Frank Lowe and Paul Weinberger. It was named after the route that Dorothy refused to follow in "The Wizard of Oz" Lowe retired in 2009, while remaining a shareholder in the company, which continued to be managed by former colleagues. In 2011, Red Brick Road merged with its sister company Ruby, whose founders

neg: Neasden Depot out S Stock servicing for trains used on the Hammersmith & City line and on the Circle line. Neasden Depot Neasden Depot or Neasden Works is a London Underground railway depot on the Metropolitan line, located between Neasden and Wembley Park stations. It is the largest depot on the London Underground, maintaining the Met's 58 London Underground S Stock fleet. When it opened, Neasden was also a manufacturing railway works, producing locomotives and coaching stock for the Metropolitan Railway. The final locomotive produced at the works was in 1898. The depot serviced both steam and electric Metropolitan locomotives. Major work

neg: Nick the Knife album made the US or UK charts, although in Canada "Stick It Where The Sun Don't Shine" hit the top 40. "Nick the Knife" is notable for being one of only two Nick Lowe solo albums with no covers, as it is composed entirely of songs written or co-written by Lowe (the other album is 1990's "Party of One"). A 1990 CD of the album was issued on Demon Records, Ltd. with the catalog number FIEND CD 183. The album was reissued by Yep Roc Records in 2017. All tracks composed by Nick Lowe except where noted. Bonus tracks from

neg: John S. Lowe only academic to have held both posts. He holds a named-chair appointment at the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University, a major institution of higher education and research. The SMU School of Law is consistently ranked in the 40-50 range for the nation's top law schools in the U.S. News & World Report. John S. Lowe John S. Lowe is the George W. Hutchison Professor of Energy Law and former Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law. He specializes in energy law. Lowe received his B.A. in 1963 from Denison

neg: Union Army Balloon Corps and Comstock remained unyielding. On 8 April 1863, Lowe left the military service and returned to the private sector. Direction of the Balloon Corps defaulted to the Allen brothers, but they were not as competent as Lowe. By 1 August 1863, the Corps was no longer used. Manned air-war mechanisms became important again to the Army when the airship (a dirigible, blimp, or zeppelin) came into existence with their motorized propulsion and mechanical means of steering. The United States Army Signal Corps established a War Balloon Company in 1893 at Fort Riley, Kansas (at the time, home of the Signal

neg: Newsboys' Home goes to work selling the "Globe", which is published by Howard Price Dutton (Samuel S. Hinds), the founder and benefactor of the home. When Dutton dies, his daughter Gwen (Wendy Barrie) becomes the new publisher. "Globe" reporter Perry Warner (Edmund Lowe) is in love with Gwen, but they quarrel over her ideas about turning the "Globe" into a highbrow paper. Perry warns Gwen that she will ruin the paper, but she is stubborn and refuses to listen. Meanwhile, Tom Davenport (Irving Pichel), a crooked politician, buys the opposition paper, the "Star", in order to swing the election for his candidates,

neg: Food Fight (TV series) Food Fight (TV series) The list runs in a chronological order with the food of each challenger's choice. The president of a large food production company combines gourmet eating and gambling into an underground eating contest, or "Food Fight," in the basement of his company. After growing up in an orphanage, Mitsuru Ihara starts working as a custodian at the large food producer. The pleasant, kind Ihara often visits his former home, pretending to be an important business man, not the blue-collar cleaner that he really is. He also has a bigger secret, which is, he is the reigning champion

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe use of balloons. In addition, Lowe's appointments of personnel independent of the engineer officers had strained his relations with the military. Lowe tendered his resignation in May 1863 and the Allen brothers took charge of the Balloon Corps, but by August, the Corps had ceased to exist. Lowe sought to recuperate from the effects of malaria and the fatigue of war. He and Leontine returned to Jefferson, New Hampshire, where he spent time with his family. He had a month's return to Washington in the fall of 1863 to complete his war report to the Secretary, then returned home to

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe McNally, the co-founder of the map printing company Rand McNally who had moved to Altadena, had the name Mt. Lowe printed on all his maps. Lowe opened the first section of the railway on July 4, 1893, from the corner of Lake and Calaveras in Altadena to the Rubio Pavilion in the Rubio Canyon, then transferring to a steep long funicular to Echo Mountain. At the top there was a 40-room chalet. In 1894, he added an 80-room hotel, the Echo Mountain House, and the observatory. By 1896, the upper division was finished into Grand Canyon at Ye Alpine Tavern.

neg: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe for a test flight to be launched at Reservoir Square in New York on November 1, 1859. Unfortunately the local gas company was not able to deliver a sufficient supply of gas. Within a week Lowe was invited to Philadelphia by Prof. John C. Cresson of the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Sciences, who also happened to be Chairman of the Board of the Point Breeze Gas Works. They promised a sufficient supply of gas. Lowe stored the balloon in Hoboken and waited for spring to do the test flight. Before the test flight the balloon was renamed the "Great Western",

neg: Sid Lowe article he recounted the backlash that he experienced in the Spanish media after the publication of the article. Sid Lowe Simon James "Sid" Lowe (born 21 June 1976) is a British columnist and journalist. Born in Archway, London, and based in Madrid, he covers Spanish football for many publications, websites, television channels, radio stations, and football-related podcasts across the world. Lowe has been writing for "The Guardian" newspaper and guardian.co.uk website since 2001. He regularly appears (via phone or Skype) on "The Guardian"'s football podcast "Football Weekly" where he gives updates on the latest news in La Liga, the top

neg: Sid Lowe Sid Lowe Simon James "Sid" Lowe (born 21 June 1976) is a British columnist and journalist. Born in Archway, London, and based in Madrid, he covers Spanish football for many publications, websites, television channels, radio stations, and football-related podcasts across the world. Lowe has been writing for "The Guardian" newspaper and guardian.co.uk website since 2001. He regularly appears (via phone or Skype) on "The Guardian"'s football podcast "Football Weekly" where he gives updates on the latest news in La Liga, the top division of Spanish football. He conducts a series of relatively lighthearted interviews for an interview series known as

neg: F. S. Wolcott towns during the week and bigger cities at weekends. In 1943 Wolcott placed an advertisement in "Billboard", describing the show as "the Greatest Colored Show on Earth", and seeking "Comedians, Singers, Dancers, Chorus Girls, Novelty Acts and Musicians". He remained its general manager and owner until he sold the company as a going concern in 1950, to Earl Hendren of Erwin, Tennessee. Wolcott died at his home in Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1967, aged 85. F. S. Wolcott Fred Swift "F.S." Wolcott (May 2, 1882 – July 27, 1967) was an American minstrel show proprietor and plantation owner who bought