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...Angeles headquarters of the Diners' Club is a dreadful place to work. A boiler factory of computers goes thunk-thunk-think and lights up like the Scoreboard at a hockey match. And in a little room by itself squats the Master Card File, bristling with millions of index cards mounted on wheels...
Stoking the Boilers. The Guterma-Dardi group then attacked the problem of dumping 575,000 new shares of United Dye stock on the market without depressing the price. Instead of selling the new shares through the New York Stock Exchange, they engaged seven boiler rooms to float the stock on the over-the-counter market, got touters to push the stock with false claims. To keep the stock up and lure more gullible investors, United Dye engaged a shady bank in Tangier to buy the old shares listed on the Big Board, which were so thinly held that...
...ades of the buildings in the Indian provincial capital that Le Corbusier built at Chandigarh. Interior pipes are not only exposed but accented in green paint, like streaks of emerald against the white walls. Even the heating machinery stands exposed throughout the building, often recalling the boiler room of a ship...
...company's clerical departments, were beginning their lunch hour. Some of them had left the building to eat, but it was the day before payday, and many of them had economized by bringing their own lunches and taking them down to the cafeteria in the basement. In the boiler room next to the cafeteria, the watch engineer had just stepped out to cash a check. It was 12 107. With a reverberating, mind-stopping roar, one of the three steel boilers, 15 ft. long and 5 ft. across, exploded at one end. The escaping steam roared out through...
Died. Rollin Henry White. 90. pioneer Ohio automaker who in 1899 developed a flash boiler that propelled White Steamers down the highway just two years after the famed Stanleys, in 1906 helped found White Motor Co., the U.S.'s largest independent truck manufacturer; in Hobe Sound...