Emporia
Americannoun
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The change in the net-sales guidance was because of a recent fire at the company’s Emporia, Kan., manufacturing facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
He previously spent eight years as defensive coordinator at Emporia State.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Emporia State projects a budget gap of $5.6 million this academic year, a spokesperson said, even after cutting almost $9 million in the last five years.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
Grizzard's father, Claude Umstead Parrish, was a Merita Bread salesman who went in on a commercial bakery in Emporia, Virginia in 1941 with $15 and sweat equity.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
There were local newspapers that she had sent him and a Alumnus Bulletin from Emporia State College.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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