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    Olin Corporation is an American manufacturer of ammunition, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide. The company traces its roots to two companies, both founded...
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    founder of Olin Corporation and Franklin W. Olin Foundation. Olin was born in Woodford, Vermont, and his father built mills and waterwheels. Olin studied civil...
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  • Cartridge Company, a forerunner of the Olin Corporation. The Winchester brand name is still owned by the Olin Corporation, which makes ammunition under that...
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  • board of the new corporation, named Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation. Subsequently, the name was shortened to Olin Corporation. Olin retired as chairman...
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  • optimised and used by the Olin Corporation for the production of anhydrous hydrazine for aerospace applications. The commercially used Olin Raschig process consists...
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    East Alton, Illinois. Founded in 1898, it was the forerunner of the Olin Corporation, formed in 1944, of which Western was absorbed into. Prior to that...
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  • U.S. Repeating Arms Company (category Olin Corporation)
    Company. In 1931, the Western Cartridge Company (forerunner of the Olin Corporation) purchased Winchester Repeating Arms and subsequently merged with it...
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  • Spencer Truman Olin (August 20, 1900 – April 14, 1995) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was an executive of the Olin Corporation, founded...
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  • college in Massachusetts Olin Corporation, a chemical corporation with a history of producing chemicals and ammunition Olin Edirne, the former name of...
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  • are scant or unavailable. Miroku also produce, under license through Olin Corporation and Browning, the Winchester's famed lever-action and falling-block...
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  • NOVA Oceaneering International Olin Corporation; also see John M. Olin and John M. Olin Foundation Oshkosh Corporation Para-Ordnance Perot Systems Picatinny...
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  • rifles were manufactured by U.S. Repeating Arms under an agreement with Olin Corporation, allowing USRA to use the Winchester name and logo. Model 70s were...
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    Badger Army Ammunition Plant (category Olin Corporation)
    trademarked name, had been introduced by Western Cartridge, a subsidiary of Olin Corporation, in 1933, but was not accepted by the U.S. Army until 1944. Ball Powder...
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  • Grumman Nosler Noveske Rifleworks OF Mossberg & Sons Olin Corporation Olympic Arms Oshkosh Corporation Palmetto State Armory Patriot Ordnance Factory Polaris...
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    Lake City Army Ammunition Plant (category Olin Corporation)
    from its inception until 1985, when operations were taken over by the Olin Corporation. From April 2001, it was operated by Alliant Techsystems (ATK), later...
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  • Alton, Illinois. In creating the foundation, Olin passed control of what would become the Olin Corporation to his sons, Spencer and John, while donating...
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    shotgun that was manufactured by the Winchester-Western Division of Olin Corporation, starting 1964. It was redesignated the Model 1300 in 1978 with minimal...
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  • Ball propellant (trademarked as Ball Powder by Olin Corporation and marketed as spherical powder by Hodgdon Powder Company) is a form of nitrocellulose...
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    ISBN 0-87021-450-0. Matunas, E. A. Winchester-Western Ball Powder Loading Data Olin Corporation (1978) p.3 Wolfe, Dave Propellant Profiles Volume 1 Wolfe Publishing...
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  • gun enthusiast John M. Olin from the presidency of the company he founded, Olin Corporation. The second came in 1982, after Olin's 1981 sale of the Winchester...
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  • organized a leveraged buyout with the Olin Corporation, an industrial chemical concern based in Stamford, Connecticut, of Olin's Ecusta cigarette paper business...
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    Rick Jamison in 1997-1998 as proven in a 2005 lawsuit Jamison vs. Olin Corporation-Winchester division. Jamison was given 7 patents on the cartridge design...
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    Special Purpose/Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP) round designated the M1153. Olin Corporation (Winchester Brand) received a contract to produce approximately 1.2 million...
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  • actress Ferris Olin (born 1948), American feminist scholar Franklin W. Olin (1860–1951), American industrialist, founder of the Olin Corporation and creator...
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    United States District Court, D. Oregon ruled in the case Jamison v. Olin Corporation-Winchester Division, Case Nos. 03-1036-KI (lead case), 04-31-KI, 04-76-KI...
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    consists of two parcels, one owned by Olin Corporation and one owned by Hooker Chemical & Plastics Corporation at an area of 22.1 acres (89,000 m2) total...
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  • 1933. Western Cartridge Company became an Olin Corporation subsidiary in 1944, and Olsen was appointed Olin's vice president for Research and Development...
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  • Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The Winchester trademark, however, is owned by Olin, which licenses both FN Herstal and Browning to build Winchester-branded...
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    Beech-Nut Life Savers merged with Squibb (part of the Olin Corporation) to form the Squibb Beech-Nut Corporation. 1973: Part of the company that sold only baby...
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    use of "duplex rounds", a single cartridge with two bullets in it. Olin Corporation produced three different rounds for testing, the first consisting of...
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