On June 8, 2006, MSC completed the acquisition of J & L America, Inc., DBA, J & L Industrial Supply (J & L), a subsidiary of Kennametal for $349.5 million. In 2013 the company opened its co-headquarters office in Davidson, North Carolina which is located in the Charlotte, North Carolina metropolitan area.
Michael Jackson's video for Thriller was released nearly 30 years ago, on December 2nd, 1983.
Before the 13-minute Thriller video sent her to stardom, Ray had posed for Playboy magazine nude in June 1980, which bothered Thriller director John Landis. But she snagged the part of Michael's Girl in Thriller thanks to the King of Pop himself. He seemed taken by the fact that I was a Playboy model, Ray told the Sunday Mirror. But don't get it twisted. While Ray and Jackson definitely had chemistry on camera, there was nothing going on when the cameras stopped rolling.