What is "wichita"

Usage examples of "wichita".

North American Indian tribes which gave its name to the Caddoan stock, represented in the south by the Caddos, Wichita and Kichai, and in the north by the Pawnee and Arikara tribes.

All the original restaurants in Wichita conformed to the architectural criteria that Ingram established in 1921: a whitewashed exterior, a crenellated tower, and the slogans painted on the wall.

All the Castles built between 1921 and 1925 in Wichita, Omaha, and Kansas City were constructed from cement blocks on an identical ten-by-fifteen-foot floor plan, with the same crenellated facade and whitewashed exterior.

I am grateful to city historian Billy Ellington for guiding me through his files on White Castle and directing me to former White Castle employees still living in Wichita.

Shackelford and other original Wichita employees into the new territories was simple: they intimately knew all the essential White Castle company policies, the correct procedures, and the proper techniques for food preparation.

Most of these managers began with the company in the early days in Wichita and had learned all facets of the operation directly from Anderson and Ingram.

By the closing months of 1921, in fact, other entrepreneurs had capitalized on Anderson's success by opening numerous hamburger stands on the streets of Wichita, and the competition was growing increasingly fierce.

Just as in Wichita, the buying public of Omaha clamored for White Castle's hamburgers, and the business flourished, with two more Castles opening before the end of that year.

Accordingly, in the fall of 1936 Ingram decided to shut down the Castles and distribution systems in Wichita and Omaha in order to cut costs.

Special Agent Angie Scapello had arrived in Wichita and was being choppered directly to the Laurent Clerc School in Hebron.

Accordingly, in only the third year of operation in Wichita, Ingram established a generous bonus system that distributed a fund composed of year-end profits to all White Castle employees.

Rising straight out of the plain, the Wichitas form a granite gateway-- beyond them lay the Chisholm Trail, and Fort Sill.

He'd read and reread all the letters from her mother in a Wichita nursing home and her sister in Coffeyville, but he'd never found a hint that might lead him to the identity of the sumbitch.

He turned on the radio, and it told us that angry religious groups and couch potatoes had set massive bonfires outside TV stations not only in Wichita, but in cities across the country.

Growing from a relatively small business in 1921, operating in the prairie city of Wichita, to a vast company spanning twelve major cities, 116 restaurants, and a geographic area stretching 1,424 rniles from east to west by 1930 meant a profound change for both the principals and the operation of the company.