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Title
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Kansas City--Freight Power House on The Prairie
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Description
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Kansas City's freight activity, distribution/transportation, is growing. As a transportation hub, Kansas City area "handled an estimated total of 291 million tons of freight in 2007, with an estimated total value of $826 billion." It's estimated that 20 to 25 percent of the jobs in the area are linked to transportation and supply chain activities. Several sidebars are included, one is "Kansas City Freight by the Numbers" that gives statistics for being one of the nation's leading rail hubs (p. 41).
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Date
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2011-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Eugene D. Brown Dies at 80
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Description
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Article about Eugene Brown, chairman of the old Eugene D. Brown Co. Realtors, who died May 14, 2008. The company was known for its Brown Bear logo and "had more than 400 employees when Brown sold it to the former J. C. Nichols Real Estate in 1998." Brown was "one of the first area real estate executives to voice support for fair-housing measures." His obituary appeared on page B4:3 in the same issue.
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Date
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2008-05-17
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
