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    This company formed printing tickets and timetables for Chicago railway companies. The owner saved the company during the great fire by burying printing presses in sand. The company is now the biggest name in its field. What is it?

    Question #69745. Asked by smartie806. (Aug 16 06 9:23 AM)


    Brainyblonde

    		Rand McNally & Co.
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    Aug 16 06, 9:38 AM
    smartie806

    		Yes. The company is now the best known of its kind.

    Aug 16 06, 10:28 AM

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