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| 1990 |
 H&M's Training Services Department, founded in 1980, this year helps
troubled teens with innovative summer programs where the youths learn to
assemble TVs, AM-FM radios and other electronic items while acquiring basic
academic skill sets… Training Services also offers Computer Aided
Drafting and Design (CADD) courses to inner-city kids as part of a
Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare grant. H&M works in cooperation
with Temple University's Center for Social Policy in helping the teens
acquire marketable skills… Henkels & McCoy's Industrial Division rigs and
sets a 150-ton turbine, a 155-ton electric generator, and a 45-ton auxiliary
unit in a little over a day and a half for a Public Service Electric & Gas
generating station in New Jersey… The Industrial Division's General
Construction Department also completes a project for Atlantic oil refinery
in Philadelphia, setting concrete foundations, piers for various tanks and
storm and process sewer drains, plus fire and water lines, and 65,000 square
feet of concrete paving as part of the refinery's new acid-alkylation unit…
Henkels & McCoy's Florida Division sends crews to the US Virgin Islands to
clean up after Hurricane Hugo downs telephone poles… H&M also comes to the
rescue in a sulfur plant in Manistee, Michigan when possible defects turn up
during routine tests of a tank containing poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas…
H&M's Northwest Division installs 175 miles of telephone cable in Kendrick,
Idaho, finally putting an end to up to16 people sharing a party line… H&M
helps construct part of a movie set for an upcoming film, Edward
Scissorhands, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder… H&M installs an
imaginative nearly wireless telephone system for 100 residential customers
in a remote corner of northeastern Nevada, enabling the ranchers to
communicate with each other -- and the outside world. January 3General Manuel Noriega (left) surrenders in Panama when US troops arrive in force to arrest him on drug trafficking and corruption charges. January 22 January February 7
June 1 June 11 July 6 July 20 August 2
October November 22 ALSO IN 1990:
In Sports
That's Show Biz
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February 1
August 31
What's on TV
hows. Murphy Brown, Designing Women,, Golden Girls, Major Dad,
Murder She Wrote and Family Matters also share berths in the top
20.
Deaths
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