Looking Back – March 26

Around Columbus

March 26

2011

Bartholomew County employed about 700 more people than at the same time the previous year, signaling a continuing jobs recovery.

1996

Arvin Industries officials awaited word that a contract had been ratified by General Motors and union workers so that 320 local workers could be called back from a temporary layoff.

1971

Henry Moore’s Large Arch sculpture, constructed in Germany, arrived in the Port of New Orleans and awaited the start of an 18-day barge trip up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers toward its eventual destination at the Bartholomew County Public Library.