The division, known as Strip Products, makes strips of steel for products such as JCB tractors and bathtubs.
After the 1960s a process of centralization set in, and eventually the General Motors divisions were stripped of their power and autonomy.
The Loop shuts down early, but a $2 ride on the El brought us to Wicker Park's Division Street, a strip of hipster-stuffed fusion restaurants.
Finally, word from the geezersphere, pioneering Comic Strip Division: "Your citation of Nov shmoz ka pop revitalized nostalgic memories," writes Albert Varon of Chicago earnestly if redundantly.
In 1958, Branner received the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Division Award for Winnie Winkle.
For those important customers, Dell and HP created special divisions designed to strip out servers' redundant components or rebuild power supplies at those VIP customers' request.
Ten years later he was appointed works manager of the company's railway materials division and then its strip mills.
The turnaround plan for Port Talbot and the strip products division involves cutting around £350m of costs and focusing on high-end products for key industries such as automotive, engineering and consumer goods.
Was this the concrete enforcer of global division with its death strip, enfiladed by machine guns in the watchtowers before the wall came down in 1989 and a reunified Germany began burying its memory under a forest of glittery high-rises?
The restaurant is the production of the Stumptown founder Duane Sorenson, who is using his coffee profits to help remake Division Street, a formerly gritty strip of southeast Portland, into a gourmand's wonderland of taverns, specialty markets, coffeehouses and Roman Candle, a bakery and pizzeria that opened this month.
