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Title
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Sugar Creek, Missouri: The Air of Refinement Is Oil Gone Now
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Description
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History of the industrial town of Sugar Creek, Missouri, centered around the Standard and later Amoco Oil Company refineries, located between Kansas City and Independence. Highlights on the growth of the town since its establishment in 1904 and its decline starting in the late 1950s and especially after the closing of the refinery in the 1980s.
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Date
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1987-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Executive of the Year: The Saucy Mr. Gates
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Ollie Walter Gates, Sr., or Ollie Gates, "the 52-year-old master of Kansas City's five-restaurant Gates & Sons Bar-B-Q chain," headquartered at 47th and Paseo, with history of Ollie and the restaurant founded by his father.
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Date
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1983-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Show's on the Road
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Description
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Growth of cellular phone service from the city into the countryside, with map.
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Date
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1990-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Slippery Sam
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Description
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Stories about Sam Long, "the 62-year-old business manager of Local 101 [Operating Engineers labor union] and former Jackson County Democratic chairman" and "Kansas City's most powerful labor leader." Description of his life and career, growing up in the Northeast residential district in the 1930s and 1940s before joining the Local 101 in 1951 as a crane operator and becoming its president in 1979.
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Date
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1991-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Sweet Harmony
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Description
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History of the opera theater, started in the late 1950s, and description of some of its notable productions and types of audience members.
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Date
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1987-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Sure Thing: Representative Alan Wheat
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Alan Wheat, 35-year-old black national representative of "Missouri's Fifth District" since 1982 (succeeding Richard Bolling), comprising "most of Kansas City."
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Date
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1986-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
