Kool-Aid was created in 1927 by Edwin Perkins in the city of Hastings, which celebrates the event the second weekend of every August with Kool-Aid Days, and Kool-Aid is the official soft drink of Nebraska. CliffsNotes were developed by Clifton Hillegass of Rising City. He adapted his pamphlets from the Canadian publications, Coles Notes.
Omaha is home to Berkshire Hathaway, whose chief executive officer Warren Buffett, was ranked in March 2009 by Forbes magazine as the second-richest person in the world. The city is also home to Mutual of Omaha, InfoUSA, TD Ameritrade, West Corporation, Valmont Industries, Woodmen of the World, Kiewit Corporation, Union Pacific Railroad, and Gallup. Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., Nelnet, Sandhills Publishing Company, Duncan Aviation, and Hudl are based in Lincoln; The Buckle is based in Kearney. Sidney is the national headquarters for Cabela’s, a specialty retailer of outdoor goods.
The world’s largest train yard, Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard, is in North Platte. The Vise-Grip was invented by William Petersen in 1924, and was manufactured in De Witt until the plant was closed and moved to China in late 2008.
Lincoln’s Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing is the only Kawasaki plant in the world to produce the Jet Ski, All-terrain vehicle (ATV), and Mule lines of product. The facility employs more than 1,200 people.
The Spade Ranch, in the Sandhills, is one of Nebraska’s oldest and largest beef cattle operations.
Transportation:
Railroads:
The Union Pacific Railroad, headquartered in Omaha, was incorporated on July 1, 1862, in the wake of the Pacific Railway Act of 1862. Bailey Yard, in North Platte, is the largest railroad classification yard in the world. The route of the original transcontinental railroad runs through the state.
Other major railroads with operations in the state are: Amtrak; BNSF Railway; Canadian National Railway; and Iowa Interstate Railroad.
Roads and Highways:
Major Interstate Highways through the State of Nebraska include:
Airports:
Airports with commercial services in Nebraska include:
- Grand Island GRI Central Nebraska Regional Airport
- Lincoln LNK Lincoln Airport
- Omaha OMA Eppley Airfield
- Kearney EAR Kearney Regional Airport
- North Platte LBF North Platte Regional Airport
- Scottsbluff BFF Western Nebraska Regional Airport
- Alliance AIA Alliance Municipal Airport
- Chadron CDR Chadron Municipal Airport
- McCook MCK McCook Ben Nelson Regional Airport
Flag of Nebraska:
The flag of the state of Nebraska is a blue rectangular cloth charged with the Nebraskan state seal. The current design was commissioned in 1925, when a bill was passed that the flag would have the Nebraska state seal in gold and silver on a field of national blue.