Word: adolph
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Experimental facilities to tap garbage power are being planned from Milwaukee to Miami to Saugus, Mass. In Nashville, Tenn., steam created by burning refuse is used to heat and air condition downtown office buildings. In Denver Adolph Coors Co. will likely soon be firing its brewery's boilers with the city's trash. But all of these efforts are relatively minor compared with the one decided on by St. Louis' Union Electric Co. after a 23-month test with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the city...
Game scoring honors went to Cornell junior guard Tod Clasky, who hit 10 for 17 and four free throws. Sophomore forward Adolph Johnson (18 points) was next for the Big Red. The 6 ft. 7 in. Silver was the game's leading rebounder, pulling down 12 errant shots...
...ADOLPH GREEN...
There is one drawback: Coors is available only in eleven Western and Southwestern states, and the Adolph Coors Co. has no intention of expanding east of Oklahoma. Within ten of those eleven states, the company outsells each of its leading competitors by more than a 2-to-1 margin. Coors accounts for 41% of all the beer sold in California, the nation's biggest beer-drinking state, and more than two-thirds of all beer drunk in Oklahoma. Altogether, the company produced eleven million 31-gal. barrels last year, making Coors the nation's fourth largest brewer (after...
Self-Sufficient. Coors has been owned by a single family since 1873, when Adolph Coors, a German draft dodger, set up a brewery on the banks of Clear Creek. His grandson, William, has been president since 1970, and the firm contains six other Coorses. As befits a company owned by rugged individualists, the firm is almost totally self-sufficient. Plant expansion is handled by Coors' full-time 1,000-man construction crew. The firm meets its energy requirements by picking combustible material out of its waste products and burning it, and by tapping its own natural gas fields. Coors...