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Rand was majority owned by the McNally family up until 1997, at which time the book services division (located in Versailles, Kentucky) was sold to World Color Press, and control of the company was bought by AEA Investors. It's a little more complicated than that, because Rand owed money to several creditors, but AEA became the majority owner.
Together with Grace and her husband, Richard Dean Tallman, Wing owned the Normandy House restaurant in Chicago. Wing taught at the Bliss School of Music in Oak Park, Illinois. She wrote poems and songs for Child Life magazine, and at least 25 books for young children, including eight Rand McNally Junior Elf books.
It was published by Rand McNally & Co. [10] In 1952 Rand McNally moved its corporate headquarters to Skokie, Illinois, and became more interested in publishing maps. [11] Also in Skokie is a company called Accuity, which from its history has been the official registrar of ABA bank numbers since 1911.
The Rand McNally Building was an early skyscraper at 160–174 Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, built in 1889 and demolished in 1911. Designed by Burnham and Root , it was the world's first all- steel framed skyscraper .
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.
He had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out-of-the-way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas). He outfitted his van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks.
McNally Jackson Books is an independent bookstore based in Manhattan, New York, owned and operated since 2004 by Sarah McNally, a former editor at Basic Books and the child of Holly and Paul McNally, the founders of the Canadian McNally Robinson Booksellers chain. [1]
From 1992 to 1997, SAPIEN developed software for other companies, including Individual Software, Viacom Entertainment, Illumina Productions, and others; the company entered into a five-year agreement with Rand McNally to design and develop their TripMaker software. Zeltser came back to SAPIEN to head development on TripMaker, eventually ...