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2 unusual facts about Big Four


Carl Doehling

During his thirty-two year reign, Doehling coached teams to fifteen conference championships, nine being in the Midwest Conference and six from the old Wisconsin state conference known as The Big Four.

Eugene O'Kelly

Eugene O'Kelly was a former Chairman and CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U. S. accounting firms and one of the Big Four auditors.


2009 US Open – Men's Singles

This was the last Grand Slam which was not won by one of the Big Four since the 2005 Australian Open (which was won by Marat Safin), until Stanislas Wawrinka won the 2014 Australian Open.

Edwin B. Crocker

The next year, Crocker agreed to serve as legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, a company run by the Big Four, which included Edwin's younger brother, Charles Crocker.

Privately held company

Koch Industries, Bechtel, Cargill, Publix, Pilot Corp., Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (one of the members of the Big Four accounting firms), Hearst Corporation, S. C. Johnson, and Mars are among the largest privately held companies in the United States.

South Street Park

The site was later occupied by Big Four freight houses.


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AMA Formula Xtreme

Manufacturers represented in the AMA Formula Xtreme Series included the Big Four; Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha, and in 2008 BMW, Ducati, Triumph and Buell were represented as well.

Anderson v. Jackson

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) planned to demolish and redevelop four deteriorated public housing developments:  B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, St. Bernard, and Lafitte (collectively, "the Big Four").

Azra Akın

In 2002, three of the "Big Four" international pageant winners come from dominant Muslim countries: Džejla Glavović, who won at Miss Earth, Christina Sawaya of Lebanon, who won Miss International 2002, and Azra Akın of Turkey, who won Miss World 2002.

Big Four Bridge

During the 1970s and 1980s, local radio station WLRS-102 FM lit up the Big Four Bridge as part of their "Bridge the Gap" Christmas promotion, which was used as a fund raiser for needy local families.

Chub Collins

He played 45 games for the National League Buffalo Bisons in 1884, on a talented team featuring the all-star infield known as the "Big Four": Dan Brouthers, Hardy Richardson, and Deacon White and later Jack Rowe.

Frank Filchock

Both the Hamilton Tigers and the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (or Big Four) made offers.

Fritz Egli

He went on to become famous for his frame designs for the large Japanese motorcycle engines of the 1970s, especially the Honda CB750 Four and the first big four-stroke motorcycles of Kawasaki.

Gateway Eastern Railway

Ownership passed to the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad, a predecessor of the Illinois Central Railroad, but in 1890 that company sold that segment to the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway, which became part of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (Big Four) and eventually the New York Central Railroad and Conrail.

Geneva Summit

The Geneva Summit (1955) was held on July 18, 1955 and was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France

Japanese financial system

The Big Four played a key role in international financial transactions and were members of the New York Stock Exchange.

Jeffersonville, Indiana

In February 2011, Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced that the two states, along with the City of Jeffersonville, would allocate $22 million in funding to complete the Big Four Bridge project– creating a pedestrian and bicycle path to link Louisville and Jeffersonville.

Martin JRM Mars

The remaining "Big Four" flew record amounts of Naval cargo on the San Francisco-Honolulu route efficiently until 1956, when they were beached at NAS Alameda.

Military history of Italy during World War I

Italy's representative in the Paris Peace Conference which led to the Versailles Treaty was Premier Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, considered one of the "Big Four" with President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Prime Minister David Lloyd-George of the United Kingdom, and Premier Georges Clemenceau of the French Republic.

Railway Air Services

The railways were the "big four": London Midland & Scottish, London & North Eastern, Great Western Railway and Southern Railway.

Sabian

It is one of the "big four" manufacturers of cymbals along with Zildjian, Paiste and Meinl.

Twenty Grand

Trained at age three by James G. Rowe, Jr. and ridden by jockey Charley Kurtsinger, Twenty Grand raced against very strong opponents in 1930 and 1931 when he was part of what the Chicago Tribune newspaper called the "big four" in racing, which included Jamestown, Mate, and Equipoise.

War on I-4

Although the Tampa Bay and Orlando markets, separated by an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 4, have teams in each of the major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada, none of the Big Four leagues have a team in both cities.