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Roy Applequist (born June 3, 1946) is an American businessman who owned Great Plains Manufacturing from 1976 to 2016 and Applequist Manufacturing starting in 2018, both farm equipment companies based in Kansas. Early life Roy Applequist was born on June 3, 1946, in Salina, Kansas. He attended Salina High School, graduating in 1964. In 1968, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from North Park University in Chicago before returning to Salina. Soon after he returned, the foundry manager of his father's agricultural manufacturing business, Roberts Industries, resigned. Applequist filled the position until the company was sold in to Federal-Mogul in 1976. Great Plains Manufacturing The sale of Roberts Industries prompted Applequist to found his own farm equipment business, Great Plains Manufacturing, on April 1, 1976. He originally started it in the same building where his father's business formed, but moved operations to Assaria, Kansas in 1979. In late 1981, ...
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Salina, Kansas
Salina is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,889. In the early 1800s, the Kanza tribal land reached eastward from the middle of the Kansas Territory. In 1858, settlers from Lawrence founded the Salina Town Company with a wagon circle, under constant threat of High Plains tribal attacks from the west. It was named for the salty Saline River. Saline County was soon organized around this township, and in 1870, Salina incorporated as a city. As the westernmost town on the Smoky Hill Trail, Salina boomed until the Civil War by establishing itself as a trading post for westbound immigrants, gold prospectors bound for Pikes Peak, and area American Indian tribes. It boomed again from the 1940s-1950s when the Smoky Hill Army Airfield was built for World War II strategic bombers. It is now a micropolis and regional trade center for North Central Kansas. It's larger employers are Tony's Pizza ...
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Seed Drill
file:7263 Canterbury Agricultural College farm.jpg, Filling a feed-box of a seed drill, Lincoln University (New Zealand), Canterbury Agricultural College farm, 1948 A seed drill is a device used in agriculture that sowing, sows seeds for crops by positioning them in the soil and burying them to a specific depth while being dragged by a tractor. This ensures that seeds will be distributed evenly. The seed drill sows the seeds at the proper seeding rate and depth, ensuring that the seeds are covered by soil. This saves them from being eaten by birds and animals, or being dried up due to exposure to the sun. With seed drill machines, seeds are distributed in rows; this allows plants to get sufficient sunlight and nutrients from the soil. Before the introduction of the seed drill, most seeds were planted by hand broadcast seeding, broadcasting, an imprecise and wasteful process with a poor distribution of seeds and low productivity. The use of a seed drill can improve the ratio of cr ...
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American Company Founders
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Manufacturing Company Founders
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high-tech, but it is most commonly applied to industrial design, in which raw materials from the primary sector are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such goods may be sold to other manufacturers for the production of other more complex products (such as aircraft, household appliances, furniture, sports equipment or automobiles), or distributed via the tertiary industry to end users and consumers (usually through wholesalers, who in turn sell to retailers, who then sell them to individual customers). Manufacturing engineering is the field of engineering that designs and optimizes the manufacturing process, or the steps through which raw materials are transformed into a final produc ...
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People From Salina, Kansas
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ...
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1946 Births
1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade. Events January * January 6 – The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies of World War II recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 – Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic ...
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Smith Center, Kansas
Smith Center is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,571. History Smith Center was founded in 1871. The first post office in Smith Center was established in January 1873. Like Smith County, Smith Center was named for Maj. J. Nelson Smith of the 2nd Colorado Cavalry, a pre-war native of Elwood, Kansas, who died leading his regiment on October 21, 1864 at the Battle of the Little Blue River. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Smith Center is located at the junction of U.S. Routes 281 and 36, approximately 100 miles south of Grand Island, Nebraska and 77 miles north of Russell and Interstate 70. Climate Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 1,665 people, 779 households, and 470 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 928 housing units at an average density of . The raci ...
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Kubota
is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Osaka. It was established in 1890. The corporation produces many products including tractors and other agricultural machinery, Heavy equipment, construction equipment, engines, vending machines, Pipe (material), pipe, valves, Casting (metalworking), cast metal, pumps, and equipment for water purification, sewage treatment and air conditioning. Kubota engines are in both Diesel fuel, diesel and gasoline or spark ignition forms, ranging from the tiny 0.276-liter engine to 6.1-liter engine, in both air-cooled and-liquid cooled designs, naturally-aspirated and forced induction. Cylinder configurations are from single cylinder to inline six cylinders, with single cylinder to four-cylinder being the most common. Those engines are widely used in agricultural equipment, construction equipment, tractors, and marine propulsion. The corporation is listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Topix, TOPIX 10 ...
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North Park University
North Park University is a private Christian university in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church. It is located on Chicago's north side in the North Park community area and enrolls more than 2,600 undergraduate and graduate students. History The university originated in the founding of North Park Theological Seminary in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church in Minneapolis. In 1894, the school moved to Chicago and opened as "North Park College", to its present location at the corner of Foster and Kedzie. Although far from the Loop, the location was close to then existing Swedish-American villages and the newly established Swedish Covenant Hospital. Old Main, the oldest building on campus, was erected and dedicated on June 16, 1894. It is at this time that the name North Park was first used to describe the school. Struggles and success marked the early years of North Park; enrollment and funding fluctuated significantly. An interest ...
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Assaria, Kansas
Assaria is a city in Saline County, Kansas, Saline County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 428. History Assaria was laid out in 1879. The first post office in Assaria was established in September 1879. A railroad previously ran north-south through Assaria, but it was later abandoned. Geography Assaria is located at (38.680374, -97.604029). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics It is part of the Salina, Kansas, Salina Salina micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area. 2020 census The 2020 United States census counted 428 people, 169 households, and 117 families in Assaria. The population density was 1,829.1 per square mile (706.2/km). There were 176 housing units at an average density of 752.1 per square mile (290.4/km). The racial makeup was 95.79% (410) White (U.S. Census), white or European American (94.16% Non-Hispanic White, non- ...
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Federal-Mogul
Federal-Mogul Corporation is an American developer, manufacturer, and supplier of products for automotive, commercial, aerospace, marine, rail, and off-road vehicles, as well as industrial, agricultural, and power-generation applications. It was acquired in February 2022 by Apollo Global Management. Federal-Mogul operated two independent business divisions, Federal-Mogul Powertrain and Federal-Mogul Motor-Parts. The two divisions each had their own chief executive officer. History Origins Federal-Mogul was founded in 1899 in Detroit by J. Howard Muzzy and Edward F. Lyon as the Muzzy-Lyon Company. Muzzy and Lyon went into business together, producing mill supplies and rubber goods. In addition, the partners formed a subsidiary called the Mogul Metal Company, where they launched bearing innovations. Muzzy Lyon began producing bearings made from their own Babbitt metal called ''Mogul'', an alloy of tin, antimony and copper. The product was trademarked under the names "Mogul" and ...
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