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Aggressive expansion has been the hallmark of the Kohler Co. ever since 1873, when Herbert's grandfather John Michael Kohler and a partner opened a foundry to make farm implements in a small town north of Milwaukee. In the early 1880s, Kohler had the idea of coating cast-iron horse troughs with enamel and offering them to farmers as bathtubs...
...just as deadly looking, although actually they are not a great deal more dangerous than water pistols. They use a carbon-dioxide propellant cartridge to fire a paint-filled gelatin ball about the size of a child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from a distance. Shoot a steer on the flank with a Nel-Spot, and you color-coat him with a splotch of red or blue or yellow the size of a fried...
Currently under construction in Jubail's industrial park are a $1 billion oil refinery, a $300 million petrochemical plant, a $2 billion polyethylene project, a $4 billion industrial chemicals plant, a $600 million iron and steel complex, and a $360 million plant to produce fertilizer pellets. In most of those industries, worldwide production gluts already abound, though a pickup in the global economy would help stimulate demand at least somewhat in consuming countries. Mean while, however, the Saudis have already been forced to cancel plans for a 225,000-ton-per-year aluminum smelter, and additional retrenchment may eventually...
...role in the collapse of New York's Franklin National Bank. Not long after the billion-dollar "hole" was discovered, Calvi disappeared from his elegant Rome apartment. He had been reported missing until his body, weighted down with 20 lbs. of stones, was discovered hanging from the iron grillwork of London's Blackfriars Bridge. Police say his death appeared to be a suicide, but they are not ruling out the possibility of foul play...
Time and mores have endangered the breed, but as Birmingham points out, that is no reason for celebration. These rich women, with their whims of iron and their vast influence, were not simply figureheads presiding over doomed estates. With few exceptions they used their wealth generously; hardly a major museum or opera house could survive today without their contributions and stewardship. The IRS has taken many of the Grandes away, but the Dames persist...