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By 1930, Rand McNally had two major road map competitors, General Drafting and Gousha, the latter of which was founded by a former Rand McNally sales representative. The Rand McNally Auto Chum, later to become the ubiquitous Rand McNally Road Atlas, debuted in 1924. The first full-color edition was published in 1960 and in 1993, it became fully ...
A U.S. Navy A-6E Intruder out of Alameda Naval Air Station crashed in San Francisco Bay. 33-year-old reservist pilot Lt. Cmdr. Rand McNally and his navigator Lt Cmdr. Brian McMahon were killed in the crash. The pair perished while making a turn to land at the base.
On March 4, 1836, McNally was born in Armagh, Ireland. Career. A printer by trade, he moved to Chicago in 1858 and got a job in a print shop owned by William H. Rand at a wage of $9 per week. In 1873, McNally and William H. Rand incorporated Rand, McNally & Co. With William H. Rand as President and McNally as Vice President.
An even lower-tech option they recommend is the Rand McNally Motor Carriers' Road Atlas. "It shows every highway in North America where truckers can pass, and if a large commercial truck can pass ...
William H. Rand. William H. Rand. William Henry Rand (May 2, 1828 – June 20, 1915) was an American printer and co-founder of the Rand McNally publishing company. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and as a young man was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston. He was enticed west in September 1849, by the California Gold Rush.
Until then, buildings relied on exterior masonry for support, limiting their height to 12 stories. The invention of steel support beams gave him the possibility to build higher and to add more windows. The Rand McNally Building, completed in 1890, was the first ever steel-framed skyscraper in the world.
James Rand McNally III (born January 30, 1944) is an American politician. He is the 50th lieutenant governor of Tennessee . A member of the Republican Party , he has been the state senator from the 5th district since 1987.
The Ranally city rating system is a tool developed by Rand McNally & Co. to classify U.S. cities based on their economic function. The system is designed to reflect an underlying hierarchy whereby consumers and businesses go to a city of a certain size for a certain function; some functions are widely available and others are only available in the largest cities.