Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Transamerica Corp...
...noted with complete revulsion Transamerica Corp.'s proposed addition to the San Francisco skyline. While "different" and "interesting," the building itself must be considered an architectural disaster in spite of itself. Its impact on the total environment in which it finds itself would be great, to say the least, but in a negative...
...describing the aggressive diversification program of INA Corp., the general business corporation formed by the Insurance Co. of North America, you mention that INA acquired World Airways, the supplemental airline. It is true that INA did announce negotiations with World Airways for this purpose on Oct. 9, 1968, but on Jan. 31, 1969, INA and World made a joint announcement that the negotiations had been terminated...
Three types of barge-carrying ships are being developed. The Acadia Forest, the first of 13 LASH (for "lighter aboard ship") vessels now being built at a cost of about $21.5 million each, is due to be put into operation by Central Gulf Steamship Corp. next month. The vessel will be able to carry 39,000 tons of cargo aboard 73 barges. Under plans devised by Jerome Goldman, a New Orleans marine architect, the barges will be hoisted out of the water by a giant shipboard crane and stored vertically in 14 bays on the LASH...
...SEEBEE of Lykes Corp. will carry only 38 barges, but they will be twice as large as the LASH barges. An elevator will descend from the SEEBEE's stern to a point below sea level, then lift two barges at a time to one of three deck levels, where they will be stored horizontally. General Dynamics is scheduled to deliver three SEEBEES to Lykes in late 1971 at a total cost (including 266 special barges) of $111 million. The third barge ship, the Stradler, designed by New York Engineer Frank Broes, will be a catamaran that will cradle...