Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory originally known as Clinton Laboratories, established in 1943 for the purpose of producing and separating plutonium for the
Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge is now a multipurpose science and technology laboratory in Tennessee managed by the University of Tennessee for the
Department of Energy.
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PONY EXPRESS DRIVES 100 KENTUCKY AND INDIANA WORKERS TO PICKET LINE; DRIVERS DEMANDING FAIR TREATMENT AND FAIR CONTRACTS
PR Newswire; 8/3/1994; 700+ words
; ...PRNewswire/ -- Over 100 local Pony Express drivers walked out on strike this...set up the picket line at Pony Expresses Clarksville terminal join more...labor practice charges against Pony Express. Hearings on these charges are...
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PONY EXPRESS COURIER FILES CHARGES OF UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES BY TEAMSTERS
PR Newswire; 9/6/1994; 700+ words
; ...Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Pony Express Courier Corp. today said that...example, Teamsters' statements that Pony Express Courier "exposes" its employees...tainted blood are patently false. Pony Express Courier accepts no shipments which...
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Pony Express Re-Ride Commemorates the 147th Anniversary of the Founding of the Pony Express.
Business Wire; 6/6/2007; 609 words
; ...From the 1860 American West, the Pony Express Ride Ends in Old Sacramento on...commemorates the 147th anniversary of the Pony Express. The 2007 Pony Express Re-Ride...Missouri at the Patee House, 1860 Pony Express headquarters. The re-ride will...
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TEAMSTERS FAIL TO RECEIVE SUPPORT OF PONY EXPRESS COURIER EMPLOYEES
PR Newswire; 8/18/1994; 700+ words
; ...SEATTLE, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Pony Express Courier Corp. said that the International...charges with the NLRB, alleging that Pony Express Courier was engaging in dilatory...at branches in three cities. "Pony Express Courier has been bargaining in...
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TEAMSTERS FAIL TO GAIN SUPPORT OF PONY EXPRESS COURIER EMPLOYEES
PR Newswire; 8/15/1994; 700+ words
; ...Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Pony Express Courier Corp. said that strikes...bargaining representatives for Pony Express Courier employees at 37 Pony Express...campaign. Bob Moree, president of Pony Express Courier, said that the company...
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STRIKING PONY EXPRESS DRIVERS JOIN FORCES FOR NOON PROTESTS IN CHICAGO & CHARLOTTE
PR Newswire; 8/18/1994; 700+ words
; ...the ranks of the local workers in Pony Express' main office city at a series...against workers at Borg-Warner's Pony Express subsidiary. Workers will distribute...continue to serve under Schwarzkopf as Pony Express drivers. Their letter, which...
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Pony Express Relay 2003: Motorcyclists Ride Across America on Quest to Raise Funds for the Fight Against Breast Cancer; Women's Motorcyclist Foundation Organizes Cross-Country Relay to Benefit The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
PR Newswire; 7/24/2003; 700+ words
; ...WMF) today kicked off the 2003 Pony Express Relay, a national motorcycle event...collection and sales of official Pony Express Relay merchandise. Pony Express...along the way. Since 1996, the Pony Express Relay has raised $1.5 million...
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Pony Express Buys Courier Express.
Business Wire; 10/14/1998; 700+ words
; ...WIRE)--OCT. 14, 1998--Pony Express Delivery Services, Inc. today...Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Pony Express, Courier Express will continue...Express President Dick Williams, "Pony Express and Courier Express are similar...
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Will Pony Express be hanging up its spurs?
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 6/14/2000; ; 560 words
; Pony Express Delivery Services Inc. has shut its...firm's troubles were growing. Some Pony Express employees had said their pay checks had bounced recently, Wall said. In June, Pony Express was purchased by Skynet Holdings Inc...
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PONY EXPRESS: ROOTED IN FACT, EMBELLISHED IN LEGEND.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/23/2003; 700+ words
; ...chasing down the truth about the Pony Express one day near Mud Springs, Neb...orphans preferred'' appeared in Pony Express rider recruitment ads. No evidence...romanticized the riders of the Pony Express,'' Corbett said. ``This is...
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Pony Express
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PONY EXPRESS PONY EXPRESS. The Pony Express officially lasted from 3 April 1860 to 26...ounce on 1 July 1861.The fastest delivery time recorded for the Pony Express was seven days and seventeen hours, conveying Abraham Lincoln's inaugural...
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pony express
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pony express in U.S. history, relay mail service...transmitted Oct. 24, 1861, and the pony express was then gradually discontinued. Its...existence was brief but picturesque, and the pony express lives in legend as well as in history...
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pony
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
pony Pony Express (in the US) a system of mail delivery operating from 1860–1 between St Joseph in Missouri and Sacramento in California, using continuous relays of horse riders. Buffalo Bill ( William Cody) was one of its riders. See also dog and pony show .
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American Express Company
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...others. In response, American Express created an affiliate and presented...fide competitor. American Express loaned the funds to start a...new company, United States Express Company, then acquired the...led to its involvement in the Pony Express. Also, James C...
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Wells Fargo & Company
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...origins to a banking and express business formed in 1852...of the few financial and express companies to survive the...competition in the banking and express business in California...and participated in the Pony Express. Th
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