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5 unusual facts about Owens


Hooven-Owens-Rentschler

In 1947, General Machinery Corporation merged with Lima Locomotive Works to form Lima-Hamilton Corporation, which, in turn, merged in 1950 with Baldwin Locomotive Works to form the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation.

James Fife, Jr.

About this time he and Captain J. E. Wilkes, his former squadron commander, were instrumental in identifying several deficiencies of the submarine force, especially the difficulties with the Mark 14 torpedo and the Hooven-Owens-Rentschler diesel engine.

Raymond H. Burke

Raymond Burke was personnel and employment manager for The Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company tool works, a major Hamilton, Ohio employer, from 1918 to 1923.

Samuel David Dealey

The submarine was one of twelve Gatos boats fitted originally with the troublesome Hooven-Owens-Rentschler (HOR) engines, whose original design was licensed from the German firm Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN) in the 1930s.

William Benson Mayo

He worked initially as a sign painter in Boston, but accepted a position as an office boy for a manufacturer of steam engines, Hooven-Owens-Rentschler.


1979 European Formula Two season

Chevron hired experienced Formula 1 designer Tony Southgate to create the B48 ground effects car with Paul Owens, based on the 1978 B42 chassis.

Bonnie Owens

Bonnie Owens (October 1, 1929 – April 24, 2006), born Bonnie Campbell, was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard.

Carl Hawkinson

Both men won in the Republican primary where Hawkinson received 47% of the vote defeating State Representative William O'Connor, Jack McInerney, and Charles Owens, but lost to Rod Blagojevich and Pat Quinn in the general election.

Cerro Gordo Mines

The author Remi Nadeau, is a descendent of the family involved with the transport of ingots from Cerro Gordo across Owens Lake and by mule train to Los Angeles.

Dave Albritton

Both were born in Alabama, Albritton in Danville and Owens in nearby Oakville; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio; both attended the Ohio State University; both were members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; both competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

David Yassky

During the primary, Major Owens called Yassky a "colonizer", Al Sharpton called Yassky "greedy", and City Council member Albert Vann sent an email to black elected officials stating that "we are in peril of losing a 'Voting Rights' district ... as a result of the well financed candidacy of Council Member David Yassky, a white individual".

Dusty Wakeman

Dusty has worked with Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Jim Lauderdale, Buck Owens, Michelle Shocked, Tom Russell, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Anne McCue, Tony Furtado, Feel, Reacharound, Dieselhed among others.

Fitness trail

There are two parcourse trails in Pleasanton; one borders the northern side of Bernal Corporate Park, paralleling the Arroyo del Valle, and the second is on the Owens Drive loop west of Johnson Drive.

Florida State Road 277

Later it encounters another dirt road along the east side running toward the southwest named Owens Community Road Following a curve towards the north, the road encounters a much smaller small private dirt road and dead end street named Dottie West Road, one of two such roads named for the former country musician.

Geoffrey O'Brien

His mother, Margaret O'Brien, née Owens, was a theater actress, and his father was Joseph O'Brien, one of the original WMCA Good Guys.

Geostrategy

Mackubin Thomas Owens notes the similarity between von Bülow's predictions and the map of Europe after the unification of Germany and of Italy.

Gerry Owens

Having worked with such names as Danny Saber (David Bowie, U2, Black Grape), Dave 'Rave' Ogilvie (Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Skinny Puppy), Adrian Sherwood (Ministry, Sinéad O'Connor) and Scott Humphries (Rob Zombie), Owens developed his creative and technical abilities extensively.

Owens wrote, arranged, recorded and co-produced the Skindive album and gained considerable exposure and success worldwide with the band, including rave reviews in publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Boston Globe and Rock Sound and the music being featured on the Grammy Awards 2002, MTV Movie Awards 2002 and MTV Road Rules.

James Byeram Owens

James Byeram Owens (1816 – August 1, 1889) was a prominent Confederate politician.

Janet S. Owens

Janet S. Owens (born February 18, 1944, in Lothian, Maryland) is an American politician and Democrat who served as County Executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for two terms, from 1998 until 2007.

In early July 2006, when asked if he would debate Owens, Schaefer said he "wouldn't debate her on how to bake a chocolate cake." In the primary election on September 12, 2006, Owens garnered more votes than Schaefer, but Peter Franchot received the most votes, earning the Democratic party's nomination for Comptroller.

Jessica Harris

She got the position by using Russ Owen's (Stuart Manning) social anthropology research on the class differences between the Owens and the McQueens as her article, which caused Russ and Mercedes to break up for a while.

John B. Owens

John Byron Owens (born 1971) is a California attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Johnny Owens

Johnny "No-Triggers" Owens (born 20 June 1977 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is the drummer for heavy metal band Brown Brigade.

Just Mobile

In March 2011, advertising agency Owens DBB issued a petition to have Just Mobile wound up due to alleged non-payment of fees, leading to concerns about the company's creditworthiness.

Léo Santa Cruz

On October 21, 2010 Santa Cruz beat the veteran James Owens at the Martin's Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, Maryland.

Luken Communications

On April 16, 2012, Luken Communications and Jim Owens Entertainment announced that the companies had teamed to relaunch The Nashville Network as a digital broadcast television network set for a late summer 2012 launch (TNN previously existed as a cable channel started by Gaylord Entertainment Company in 1983, and is now known as Spike under Viacom ownership).

Manchester College

Victoria University of Manchester, originally Owens College and for much of its history known simply as "Manchester University".

Marie Owens

Marie Owens (1853-1927) is believed to have been the first female police officer in the U.S., joining the Chicago Police Department in 1891, and retiring in 1923.

Napalm Brain

It showcased Owens' blues-on-acid guitar style, Burnett's melodic basslines, and Lyxzén's drumming, which bears strong resemblance to the stylings of John Bonham.

Owens Corning

The company was referred to several times in the Family Guy episode "The Former Life of Brian" when the Pink Panther dies from his body being one-third Owens-Corning Fiberglass Insulation.

Owens Valley Radio Observatory

In Contact (1997), Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster) did her thesis work on the Owens Valley 40 meter telescope.

Proetida

These typically small trilobites resemble those of the order Ptychopariida, from which the new order Proetida was only recently separated in 1975 by Fortey and Owens.

Reportedly haunted locations in Kentucky

The Owens House in Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky, is a Queen Anne house which was built by John Allen Owens in 1894.

Rip Owens

Owens was born Ralph Owens on December 9, 1894 in Hebron, Wisconsin.

Robert Bowie Owens

After seven years of service left the now-department in shape comparable to other universities of the time, in August 1898, Owens took a position as MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal.

Robert M. Owens

On May 27, 2008, Owens filed a nominating petition with over 1300 signatures from 44 of Ohio's 88 counties.

Ronn Owens

Owens began his career in broadcasting in 1968 after graduating from Temple University.

Ryan Owens

During his time on World News Now, Owens was involved in controversy when the two anchors inappropriately made light of Owen Wilson's suicide attempt on-air and they were reprimanded for this by ABC News.

Ryan Wolfe

Ryan becomes smitten with the former night shift employee Samantha Owens (played by Taylor Cole) and has given her a present to congratulate her for her promotion as a detective.

Sarah Crane

2007: as Nymph in Rusalka, Richard Hickox (cond), Australian Opera Orchestra, Cheryl Barker, Rosario La Spina, Bruce Martin, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Anne-Marie Owens; Chandos Records

Shirley Owens

As well as Owens, the Shirelles consisted of classmates of hers from Passaic High School, New Jersey: Addie "Micki" Harris, Doris Kenner Jackson, and Beverly Lee.

Stephen T. Owens

In another publicized case, Owens represented Internet Entertainment Group against Pamela Anderson's unsuccessful attempt to prevent the company from posting the so-called "honeymoon video" made by her and then-husband Tommy Lee on the internet.

The Dixie Hummingbirds

During the years, a number of talented singers starred in the group—their bass, William Bobo (known as Thunder), tenor Beachey Thompson, James Walker (who replaced Owens), and Claude Jeter, who went on to star for The Swan Silvertones.

The Solitaires

Formed in Harlem in 1953, the band consisted of Herman Curtis, Buzzy Willis and Pat Gaston (who had previously been together in another group, The Crows), and Monte Owens, Bobby Baylor and Bobby Williams (formerly of The Mello-Moods).

The Way International

From then on, The Way was run by a board of Trustees headed by Wierwille as President, Ermal Owens as Vice President, and Wierwille's brother Harry Ernst Wierwille as secretary-treasurer.

True Love Travels on a Gravel Road

True Love Travels on a Gravel Road is a song written by the Frazier-Owens songwriting team and popularized by Elvis Presley.

Wayne Owens

In 1984, Owens lost the Utah gubernatorial race to Republican Norman H. Bangerter, but was re-elected to the House in 1986 and served through 1992, when he ran for the U.S. Senate again.

WJRZ-FM

Buck Owens mentions WJRZ 970 AM and its then owner, Ed Nielson, in track seven of his 1966 recording, Carnegie Hall Concert With Buck Owens And His Buckaroos, recorded live by Capitol Records.


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