Prairie grass park area rises at River Ridge in Cedar Rapids
River Ridge Executive Park in northeast Cedar Rapids is planting 31 acres of prairie grass and wildflowers as it develops. Life Investors plans open park like space with 35 percent green area, aiming for a maintenance free landscape that reduces costs and supports wildlife while new offices and a six acre pond rise nearby.
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Cedar Rapids
River Ridge
Life Investors
Lindsay Schumacher
Atherton
Schumacher
Sue Kramer
Kramer
Bestick
Iowa
Iowa Leads June Rise in Business Starts Across Nation
Des Moines reports Iowa shows a 29.8 percent jump in June business starts to 161 from 124, the second largest gain after Montana, with 879 Iowa startups in the first half of 1987, up 9.6 percent from 1986. nationwide half-year totals fall 8.1 percent. Weyerhaeuser buys six Mead corrugated plants, including in Waterloo Iowa. orders for manufactured goods rise 1.7 percent in June per Commerce Department. Aberdeen seeks 250000 block grant for Senora Madera plant relocation. Johnson Controls ends bid to buy Fisher Guide GM unit in Elyria Ohio.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Dun & Bradstreet
Montana
Tacoma
Wash
Weyerhaeuser Co
Mead Corp
Weyerhaeuser
Albert Lea
Minn
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids bank clearings gain then drop in July
Clearings in Cedar Rapids rose by 0.4 percent in the first seven months of this year versus the same period last year. However July clearings fell 2 percent from June and 12.5 percent from July 1986, signaling a softer monthly finish after earlier gains.
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Cedar Rapids
Dow hits fourth straight high as market earns eighth gain
The rally extended to eight sessions with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at 2,572.07 up 4.63. Volume on the NYSE was 181.87 million shares as strength spread to W R Grace and Penwest while overall gains outpaced losses 6 to 5 among active issues.
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New York Stock Exchange
W.R. Grace
Cryovac
Cedar Rapids
Penwest
Penick and
Ford
New York
Jim Engle
Neuwirth Fund
Boeing
GTE
Union Carbide
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford Motor
IBM
Honeywell
Boise Cascade
Weyerhaeuser
Mead
Bristol-Meyers
Pfizer
Merck
Standard & Poor
S&p
Lennox Offers First Lifetime Warranty on Pulse Furnace
Lennox Industries unveils what officials call the first limited lifetime warranty in the furnace industry for its Pulse Furnace. The warranty covers the heat exchanger assembly and applies to units purchased since 1982 and future furnaces. Lennox aims to boost Pulse sales by half and expand employment at the Marshalltown plant.
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Marshalltown
Lennox Industries Inc
John Norris Jr
Lennox
Norris
Dallas
Steinberg Named Chairman of Frank B. Hall & Co
Saul P. Steinberg, chairman and CEO of Reliance Group Holdings, elected chairman of Frank B. Hall & Co. to replace John F. McCaffrey who resigned after differences over improving financial performance. Hall reported a 2.2 million loss for Q2 and a 60 percent drop in first-half earnings. Hall operates 215 offices in 27 countries with about 7,000 employees.
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Briarcliff Manor
N.Y
Saul P. Steinberg
Reliance Group Holdings
Frank B. Hall & Co
Steinberg
John F. McCaffrey
Reliance Group
Hall
McCaffrey
Cedar Rapids
Churchill to receive business leader award in Iowa City
James L. Churchill president of Rockwell Internationals Avionics Group in Cedar Rapids will receive the Oscar C. Schmidt Business Leadership Award at the University of Iowa. The banquet is Oct 1 at the Highlander Supper Club. Churchill joined Collins Radio and Rockwell through a 1973 acquisition and led the 5,200-employee Avionics Group with plants in Coralville Decorah Manchester Mason City and Melbourne Florida. The award honors Iowa business leadership and community work.
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Iowa City
James L. Churchill
Rockwell International
Avionics
Cedar Rapids
Oscar C. Schmidt
University of Iowa
Iowa Business Leadership
Highlander
College of Business Administration
Iowa
U of I
Churchill
Avionics Group
Coralville
Decorah
Manchester
Mason City
Melbourne
Fla
Jim Churchill
George Daly
Collins Radio Co
Collins
Rockwell
Collins Air Transport
Kansas City
Barges back up as grain shipping grows
Barge traffic along the Mississippi shows signs of a rebound as harbor services report up to a 35 percent rise in business, and grain exports to the Gulf of Mexico increase, though experts caution the industry has not fully returned to prior health.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
Jeffrey Smith
American Waterways Operators
Illinois River
Morris
Chicago
Walter Kolbe
Morris Harbor Services
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Milwaukee
Johnson Controls
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Frank B. Hall
Peter T. Pruitt
Arizona
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Trans World Airlines
Oscar Schmidt
Cincinnati Butcher Supply
Cincinnati
C. Oscar Schmidt
Harvard University
Stanley M. Howe
Muscatine
Alex A. Meyer
Amana
Ivan Bull
Davenport
Marvin Pomerantz
West Des Moines
Howe
HON Industries
Meyer
Amana Refrigeration
Bull
McGladrey Hendrickson & Pullen
Pomerantz
Mid-America Group
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