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- Description:
- The Bard Steel Company is featured in this installment of "Western Michigan at work" hosted by Dr. Willis Dunbar. Dunbar describes the inner workings of the steel warehouse and mill supply company and details the economic advantages served by buying these products from a distributor rather than buying them directly from the source. Dunbar interviews long-time employee Charles Herrington about how the company has grown during his time there.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-03-24T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Marvin Grinstern talks about his employment at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, from 1965 and 1975. Grinstern describes growing up in Lansing, farming, visiting his father at the plant, as a boy, during the 1937 strike and finally joining his father and other relatives at REO. Grinstern also talks about a fatal accident on the shop floor, managers abusing their position, the REO bankruptcy, the plant closing, and the resulting shock, depression and suicides among workers. Grinstern laments the loss of manufacturing companies and jobs in Lansing and remarks on the great changes that came to factories in the wake of unionization and women in the workplace. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-12-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama speaks about the 2013 budget and introduces an initiative to train workers through a partnership between businesses and community colleges. He describes his proposals for spending cuts and some increases. Obama makes his remarks at Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale campus.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-02-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Created:
- [1998 TO 1999]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Date Created:
- [1947 TO 1948]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Date Created:
- [1993 TO 1994]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- A letter to A. Sandberg, Office and Budget Manager, Oldsmobile, from R. T. Murphy, Resident Comptroller, Chevrolet Motor Division (Buffalo, N. Y.). The letter is in regard to an employment record for William H. Roth.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- RE Olds and RE Olds Anderson Collection
- Date Created:
- [1949 TO 1950]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
- Description:
- An unidentified Lansing Fire Department staff member talking on the telephone in an office at the new Station No. 1. The original print shows moisture damage. The photographer is not identified.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Fire Department Station No. 1 Photographs
- Date Created:
- [1948 TO 1949]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing School District Collection
