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By 1988, the company was losing $2 million per day. After being pressured by the banks, it was decided to sell off the oil business. Tenneco Oil Exploration Company was split up and sold off to multiple buyers. By 1994, Tenneco decided to begin getting out of the agricultural business and agreed to sell 35% of the now named Case Corporation.
1 death – See section on this tornado – 12 people were injured. Total economic losses were estimated at $14,800,000. Total economic losses were estimated at $14,800,000. [30] [31] [32] [33]
1960 An estimated 125,000 persons in southwest Missouri were without gas in subfreezing temperatures for several days due to a ditch-digging machine rupturing a pipeline. 1960 On Saturday, March 19, a leaking 1 1/2 inch gas line led to gas migrating through a sewer line, from a church into a school, in Wauseon, Ohio. The gas later exploded ...
Gypsy-Rose Alcida Anderson (born July 27, 1991) is an American woman convicted of second-degree murder in Springfield, Missouri for the death of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. She was sentenced to ten years in prison. She was paroled after eight years, at the end of December 2023.
A prolonged and widespread tornado outbreak sequence affected a large portion of the United States in late-May 2013 and early-June 2013. The outbreak was the result of a slow-moving but powerful storm system that produced several strong tornadoes across the Great Plains states, especially in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Tenneco was named one of the 100 Best Managed Companies in the World four times during his tenure. At Tenneco he was elected chairman of both the Business Roundtable (1998–1999) and the National Association of Manufacturers (1994–1995). Before Tenneco, Mead was executive vice president and a member of the board at International Paper.
Kevin Johnson Jr. (September 23, 1985 – November 29, 2022) was an American man executed in Missouri for the 2005 murder of police officer William McEntee. Johnson's case has partly drawn attention because his daughter, Khorry Ramney, was not allowed to witness her father's execution due to her age (19), the same age Johnson was when he committed the crime for which he was sentenced to death.
Later, photographers would spot the wrecked machine and would call it the "Streetcar of Death", imagining that no one on board could have survived given the immense damage. The F4 tornado skirted the downtown area and moved over the Missouri River into Iowa, causing further damage before dissipating.