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Warehousing News Roundup: April 8, 2019

Stord

For example, Kansas City Southern has accepted trains from other lines that it usually wouldn’t have to accommodate. True Value is investing $150 million in upgrades to its supply chain that will cover a new distribution center in Pennsylvania, ordering software, and more.

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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

And if most of your production happens in FL, you may choose to divert sourcing to your secondary facility, say in New Jersey, during heavy produce shipping season months to avoid the heightened costs. As the center of the dustbowl during the early 20 th century, Kansas has a long history of agriculture in the United States.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

percent, 136,700 jobs), and Kansas (11.9 Manufacturing provides a significant source of demand for goods and services in other sectors of the economy, and these sales to other industries are not captured in measures of manufacturing sector GDP but are counted in the broader measure of its gross output. percent, 162,900 jobs).

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Is More Innovation in Education Required?

Enterra Insights

Earlier this year, Linda Brown, the Kansas school girl at the center of the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. 1] Associated Press, “ Linda Brown, student in 1954 ruling ending school segregation, dies ,” NBC News, 26 March 2018. [2] Board of Education of Topeka died at the age of 76.[1] ” Footnotes. [1]

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Profiles in Leadership: Robert Joseph Dole

Enterra Insights

Seib ( @GeraldFSeib ) sums up Dole’s remarkable life this way: “Bob Dole went from the plains of Kansas to the battlefields of Italy, where he was left for dead with grievous wounds, before a dogged recovery enabled him to become a widely respected leader of the Senate and Republican nominee for both president and vice president.”[1]

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