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  2. Newport Trust - Wikipedia

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    The Newport Trust Company is a private company whose US address is in New York City. The Trust is controlled by the Newport Group , through a New Hampshire -chartered trust company. [2] The Trust controls $34 billion in Assets under management on American stock exchanges, [3] including roughly $10 billion in Boeing shares [4] and roughly $3.77 ...

  3. Lorillard Tobacco Company - Wikipedia

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    Lorillard Tobacco Company was an American tobacco company that marketed cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick, Old Gold, Kent, True, Satin, and Max. The company had two operating segments: cigarettes and electronic cigarettes. [1] The company was purchased by Reynolds American, a company owned by British American Tobacco, in 2015 ...

  4. Electric Dylan controversy - Wikipedia

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    Electric Dylan controversy. Dylan performing "Like a Rolling Stone" with a backing band at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. By 1965, Bob Dylan was the leading songwriter of the American folk music revival. [a 1] The response to his albums The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and The Times They Are a-Changin' led the media to label him the "spokesman of a ...

  5. Newport Television - Wikipedia

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    Newport Television, LLC. Newport Television, LLC was a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. [1]

  6. Goldie Lookin Chain - Wikipedia

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    Leeroy Fashions. Past members. Maggot. Website. www.youknowsit.co.uk. Goldie Lookin Chain are a Welsh comedy hip hop group from Newport, south-east Wales. The group produces humorous, and often explicit songs that satirise hip hop, today's consumer society, the "chav" culture and life in Newport and South Wales in general.

  7. Newport Jazz Festival - Wikipedia

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    The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hired George Wein to organize the first festival and bring jazz to Rhode Island.

  8. Newport Bus - Wikipedia

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    Newport BusBws Casnewydd. Newport Bus (the operating name of Newport Transport Limited) is the main provider of bus services in the city of Newport, Wales. A limited company whose shares are wholly owned by Newport City Council, it is one of the few remaining municipal bus companies in the United Kingdom.

  9. Newport Folk Festival - Wikipedia

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    Newport Folk Festival is an annual American folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport Jazz Festival. The festival was founded by music promoter and Jazz Festival founder George Wein , music manager Albert Grossman , and folk singers Pete Seeger , Theodore Bikel , and Oscar Brand .