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June 4, 1911
Department of Commerce. Bureau of Lighthouses. 1913-7/1/1939
National Archives at College Park
Powell Stackhouse (top photo, lower right)
1905-1965
Steel Great Lakes bulk freighter
Built at Wyandotte MI by Detroit Shipbuilding Co., Hull 160
Launched Aug 5, 1905
524’ LOA, 504’ LBP, 54’ beam, 30’ depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 12’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1800 IHP
Enrolled at Detroit MI Aug 17, 1905 (Temp #10)
504.0 x 52.2 x 31.0, 6171 GT, 4919 NT US 202339 to:
Mahoning Steamship Co., Cleveland OH, M. A. Hanna & Co., Mgr. (home port to
Fairport OH)
Permanent enrollment at Cleveland OH Aug 28, 1905 (#17)
Entered service 1905
Fleet transferred 1929 to management of Bethlehem Transportation Corporation, Cleveland OH, H. K. Oakes, Mgr.
Transferred 1955 to Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Cleveland OH (home port to Wilmington DE)
Laid up at end of 1960 season at Erie PA and did not operate again.
Sold 1965 to Hudson Waterways Corporation for trade in to U. S. Maritime Commission on vessels in the reserve fleet. Resold to Spanish shipbreakers. Cleared Lauzon QC Oct 13, 1967with str. Lebanon under tow of Polish tug Jantar. Tow arrived Santander Spain Nov 9, 1967.
(Vessel Histories of Sterling Berry)
OPMC Company provide E- commerce store. E- Commerce Store to directly buying and selling good services provides for Customers. Customers can shop online using Affordable price different computer and devices, include computer, laptops, tablet and Smartphone’s. www.files.com/shared/5937d331207ac/6june%20slide.pdf
Goldenberg Mansion - Philippine School of Commerce
Goldenberg Mansion is one of the celebrated and historic villas of Manila. Originally built by the Eugster family, it passed into the possession of the Oidor de la Audiencia, Jose Moreno Lacalle. It was occupied by the Admiral Patricio Montojo of the Spanish Navy from 1897 to 1898 and in 1898 it was occupied by the Spanish Royal Navy Club. After the Battle of Manila Bay in May 1898 it became the home and headquarters of General [[Arthur MacArthur.
During 1903 to 1904 it became the temporary home of office of the Philippine Prelimanary Expedition to the International Exposition of St. Louis, Missouri. Subsequently it became the site of the Philippine School of Commerce in 1908. On 16 October 1916 the first Philippine Senate held its initial session here. After World War II, it was bought and occupied by the industrialist Michael Goldenberg in 1950. Lovingly restored and maintained, the mansion was bought for 180,000 pesos by First Lady Imelda Marcos in 1966, three years after the owner Michael Goldberg had passed away.
The statue that adorns the front roof of Grand Central Terminal and faces south is 48 feet high and weighs in at 1500 tons. On the left sits Hercules, representing physical strength; on the right is Minerva, goddess of wisdom and protector of cities; featured at the center is Mercury, god of travel and commerce.
This sculptural grouping was considered the largest of its kind when it was built in 1914. Perhaps even more impressive than the statue is that clock. At 13 feet in diameter the clock still is the largest example of Tiffany glass in the world. During the 100th anniversary, in Inaccessible New York: Behind The Scenes At Grand Central Terminal, WCBS offered a backstage tour that seems “like something out of the movie ‘Hugo.’”
“Transportation” or alternatively “The Glory of Commerce” is said to represent the wisdom, speed and strength of Grand Central and the midtown neighborhood. Apparently the French sculptor who designed the work was not very impressed by this wisdom, speed and strength of the neighborhood. French artist Jules-Alexis Coutan refused to come to the United States to oversee the construction of his project. When asked why, his reply was “I fear some of your [American] architecture would distress me.”
So the sculpture was constructed locally under long distance supervision. William Bradley and Son of Long Island City, Queens took seven years to construct Coutan’s massive sculpture of the Greek Gods out of the same Bedford limestone as the façade of Grand Central Terminal.
Title: [Senator George Smathers Reports - President Kennedy Assassination]
Date of film: 1963.
Physical descrip: B&W; sound; original length: 4:28.
Local call number: V-183; AA317.
General note: Excerpt of original. Senator George Smathers comments on the nation's great loss due to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He recounts his close personal friendship with the president, calling him a great leader and a warm and tender person. He then praises President Lyndon Johnson and recalls his years of close interaction with him in the Senate. He details the personal characteristics that will make President Johnson an ideal president. Produced by the Senate Recording Studios.
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Both of these plants are owned and operated by Exelon Corporation. Exelon recently requested that the Illinois Commerce Commission grant them a rate hike which basically means that the ratepayers will subsidize the continued operation of these unprofitable units. This will be at the expense of production tax credits for renewables like solar, wind, etc.
These plants are aging, brittle and dangerous. A Fukushima-like meltdown at one of these facilities would render much of northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa uninhabitable for the rest of time. Chicago would be threatened. Prime crop land would be destroyed. The fresh water of Lake Michigan would be poisoned forever.
The technology exists to move to renewables. The political will to employ that technology does not. A large portion of our energy needs could be met by safe energy methods like solar panels and windmills. We already possess a giant nuclear fusion plant: our sun. Sunlight and windpower do not present an omnipresent danger to the health of every living creature on this planet or to the continued viability of the planet itself.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Caroline Atkinson today announced the U.S. private sector members who will serve the next term on the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum. The Forum will meet during the State visit of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to Washington, D.C., in October and will provide joint recommendations to both presidents on opportunities to advance the U.S.-Brazil bilateral relationship. Pritzker and Atkinson will co-chair the ninth meeting of the CEO Forum along with Brazilian Presidential Chief of Staff Minister Gleisi Hoffmann and Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Fernando Pimentel.
“During his recent trip to Brazil, Vice President Biden asked what the United States and Brazil can do together. The U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum seeks to answer that question through a public-private dialogue in which business leaders from the United States and Brazil make recommendations to the highest levels of our respective governments about the future of our bilateral economic and commercial relationship,” said Secretary Pritzker. “I am looking forward to meeting the new and returning CEOs along with both Ministers Pimentel and Hoffmann and Deputy National Security Advisor Atkinson to discuss issues of mutual interest.”
The Forum has had success opening discussions between the United States and Brazilian governments on a number of important issues, including visa reform, aviation, and education, and was instrumental in concluding the recent U.S.-Brazil Tax Information Exchange Agreement.
“Presidents Obama and Rousseff recognize the benefits of a strong and dynamic U.S.-Brazil commercial relationship. The upcoming CEO Forum meeting comes at an important time for the U.S.-Brazil relationship as we host President Rousseff during her official State Visit. I look forward to engaging both the CEOs and the Brazilian government on issues that will benefit our commercial relationship. By continuing to strengthen our partnership, we can provide the steady, positive leadership and growth our hemisphere needs as we seek to develop policies that will help our economies and our citizens prosper.” said Deputy National Security Advisory Atkinson.
Launched in 2007, the CEO Forum meets biannually and consists of up to a total of 24 CEOs from the United States and Brazil. The U.S. CEOs are appointed to a three-year term, and were selected from respondents to a Federal Register Notice for applicants to the U.S. section of the Forum. In addition to the appointments of the following individuals to the Forum, Secretary Pritzker and Deputy National Security Advisor Atkinson have designated Patricia Woertz, Chairman, CEO, and President of Archer Daniels Midland Company to serve as Chair of the U.S. Section of the Forum.
U.S. Section for the 2013-2016 Session of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum
John M. Dionisio, Chairman and CEO (AECOM Technology Corporation)
Andrés Gluski, President and CEO (The AES Corporation)
Patricia A. Woertz, Chairman, CEO, and President (Archer Daniels Midland Company)
Eduardo C. Leite, Chairman of the Executive Committee (Baker & McKenzie)
Lee A. McIntire, Chairman and CEO (CH2M HILL)
Michael Corbat, CEO (Citigroup Inc.)
William M. Brown, President and CEO (Harris Corporation)
John P. (JP) Bilbrey, CEO (The Hershey Company)
John V. Faraci, Chairman and CEO (International Paper)
Kenneth C. Frazier, President and CEO (Merck)
Stephen F. Angel, Chairman, President and CEO (Praxair, Inc)
Keith Nosbusch, Chairman and CEO (Rockwell Automation)
As the United States’ seventh-largest export market, Brazil offers U.S. companies tremendous opportunities. In 2012, U.S. goods exports to Brazil were $43.8 billion, up 254 percent from 2002. U.S. goods imports from Brazil were $32.1 billion in 2012, a 104 percent increase from 2002. In the past 10 years, the United States and Brazil have increased bilateral trade in goods 170 percent. Top U.S. exports to Brazil last year included chemicals, transportation equipment, computer & electronic products, machinery, and petroleum and coal products.
At the end of 2012, the total stock of Brazilian investment in the United States stood at $14 billion. This is about a 10 percent increase from the 2011 total FDI stock of Brazilian investment in the United States. Top sectors for investment include metals, auto and transportation equipment manufacturing, energy, and services. Total investment by affiliates of Brazilian firms in the United States supported roughly 76,100 U.S. jobs in 2011 and contributed $5.7 billion to U.S. exports. The United States has substantial FDI in Brazil. At the end of 2012, the total stock of FDI from the United States to Brazil stood at $79.4 billion. In 2012 alone, U.S. firms invested $7.9 billion in Brazil.
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Overview of Charters Towers History.
Until around 1900 this was the second largest city in QLD! It called itself “The World” and with good reason. The gold finds here lasted a good 40 years. The town had a long period of wealth and growth. And the town took itself to the world which was a first for any mining centre in Australia and for any city apart from the state capital cities. Because of the wealth in the town share brokers started businesses there in the early 1880s. They agreed in 1885 to form a group and establish a stock exchange – the only one in Australia that has ever existed outside of a capital city. Then in 1886 they took the city to the world- at the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London. The set up a display of mining and ore crushing and they accepted £1 shares in various mining companies that operated in the town. It was a great success. One company is an example- Day Dawn Block and Wyndham- they received almost £500,000 in paid up shares to finance their future mining work! This exhibition put Charters Towers on the world map and was the first time London investors invested directly in Australian mines rather than through a London based share broking company or finance company. Some of the companies were duds but most were not. The peak gold yields from Charters Towers did not come until 1899 but these yields would not have occurred without the London finance for the deep shafts that were needed to reach to gold. The influx of money into the town transformed the place. The wooden structures, many dating from 1872 the time of the original gold finds were replaced with lavish and imposing stone and brick structures. The main street was rebuilt. Grand houses were built by the successful miners and the period from 1886-1893 was a boom building period. Prosperity was assisted by the development of the new cyanide gold processing works which produced even more gold for the miners and investors. The new cyanide works opened in Charters Towers in 1892. Fortunately we can still see some of this faded glory in Charters Towers today. But in the 1890s it was the best place to live in QLD outside of Brisbane. Thus it was not surprising that the Northern Mining Register newspaper wrote in 1897 that:
Most mining in Charters Towers ceased around 1912.
Discovery and Early Establishment of Charters Towers.
Hugh Mosman, whom we have heard of before on this tour, George Clarke, John Fraser and their Aboriginal horse boy called Jupiter Mosman were prospecting near Ravenswood in December 1871 when they found the first gold in the region. They registered their find as Charters Towers after Mr Charters the Gold Commissioner of the day and Towers because of the conical shaped stone hills (tors) near the site which looked like towers. A gold rushed quickly followed in 1872 with the birth of the town. Mosman and his mates discovered 10 gold reefs. Early finds were of alluvial gold but soon deep shafts were needed to extract the ore and companies were formed with money and capital to undertake this work. British investment led to the transformation of the canvas and wooden town into a fine stone metropolis occurred after 1886 as explained above. The gold at Charters Towers was the major find in QLD and an important find for Australia. By the end of 1878 there were 12 mills processing ore in the town. The Venus Battery works which started operations in 1872 operated right through until 1972. For most of the period from the mid 1870s up to 1906 gold exports from QLD exceeded those of the other major QLD export - wool. QLD certainly had much more gold than NSW but much less than Victoria although not all QLD gold came from Charters Towers. During its peak years over 200,000 ounces of gold a year were mined in Charters Towers. Although the mining companies closed down operations in 1912 individual miners continued working the field right up to World War Two and the old cyanide ore dumps from the battery works have been reworked since then.
To recognise the importance of his find the main street of Charters Towers was named Mosman Street. In 1882 the town was linked to Townsville by rail improving communication with the outside world. The two day trip to Townsville now took a few hours. In the boom period of the 1890s Charters Towers saw the erection of some of its major structures such as:
•the Stock Exchange Arcade ( 76 Mosman street)
•the amazing classical structure for the former Australian Bank of Commerce (86 Mosman Street)
•Ayot House that we visit ( 63 Hodgkinson Street)
•the Court House ( 32 Hodgkinson Street)
•the former School of Mines building ( 24 Hodgkinson Street)
•the classical revival Post Office with tower ( 17 Gill street) built in 1892
•the historic Civic Club for the well-to-do miners ( 117 Gill Street)
•the old Police Station and barracks ( 51 Gill Street)
•the wooden tower bell of the former Anglican church and rectory ( 134 Gill Street).
•the impressive Masonic Temple ( 18 Ryan Street)
•the Thornburgh House and later college buildings ( 57 King street) - this was originally a grand home for a wealthy town businessman, later becoming a college after 1919.
All of the above buildings and more are on the Register of the National Estate and others are on the QLD register. Most survived because when the gold did peter out the town remained a major agricultural service centre and education centre. It never lost the bulk of its town population. Lissner Park with its charming rotunda and bandstand complex at Deane Street (on corner with Bridge Street) is one of many reminders of the heyday of the town. The structure opened in 1910 as a memorial to those who served in the Boer War. The wrought iron was forged in Charter Towers itself in a local foundry. The original marble benches have been vandalised or broken but the bandstand is still charming and picturesque with some good historical details. Quite a few hectares around Mosman and Gill streets are on the Register of the National Estate as the area contains so many 19th century buildings, many with original features and details despite their current commercial usage.
Charters Towers Today.
The city has 8,000 inhabitants down from the 19th century 20,000 and then 1915 population of the 15,000. But some gold mining was re-activated in the 1980s and again after 2001. Mining is still a significant employer of townspeople and Citigold Corporation Ltd announced in 2006 that they would work four mines beneath the current township. They are excavating 250,000 ounces of gold a year. Tourism is not a major employer but education is still important. The city still has private boarding schools for the children of the outback pastoralists and a total of four secondary schools. There are still 8 hotels in the town and tourist attractions do employ some locals in some of the old restored building such as the former Stock Exchange which is now a museum and the Venus Gold Battery.
The MWATBAR (Watson, CA to Barstow, CA) manifest makes its way east through the City of Commerce in the setting sun.
In November 1987, and at a moments' notice, Aberdeen College of Commerce (also known as the College of Comedy) was evacuated. Hundreds of students were hurried from the building, never to return. Structural reports had indicated that this piece of modernism was in immanent danger of collapse. It didn't; it was demolished and the site became prime building land. Students were moved to various sites elsewher with an area out at the Bridge of Don Barracks becoming first choice alternative.
With thanks to JD
Senator John McCain speaking at a business roundtable hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Chamber of Commerce group, Waterford, from the Poole Collection.
See comments below for those that we've managed to identify...
Date: Monday, 12 May 1930
NLI Ref.: POOLEWP 3697
I photographed this Pete for Stomberg Trucking pumping of fly ash at the Lafarge Cement plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 31, 2012.
5/2014 - Commerce, CA
Just as we were arriving at Commerce to watch some trains, this BNSF office car special was backing out of the yard. They spun the train on the loop and later backed into downtown LA to add the train to a regular Amtrak.
With a few hours of downtime the day before Milwaukee Trainfest 2018, we decided to go railfanning at the diamonds at Duplainville, where CN and CP cross each other.