Word: metalclad
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...taken advantage of the treaty's broad provisions. The LOEWEN GROUP, a Canadian funeral conglomerate, wants the U.S. government to pay $725 million in damages because a Mississippi jury harbored what Loewen claims were "anti-Canadian, racial and class biases" when it found the company guilty of contract fraud. METALCLAD, a California firm that was prevented from opening a toxic-waste plant in Mexico, won $15.6 million from that country. UPS is seeking $160 million from Canada because its public postal service competes "unfairly" against the Atlanta-based firm...
Director John Hirsch, who staged the Lincoln Center production of Galileo (TIME, April 21), has had a few galvanic inspirations. Abandoning the customary fencing-match armies, he fills the stage with metalclad soldiers who move like ponderous impersonal relentless brigades of tanks. On two levels of the stage, Richard and his enemy Richmond exhort their armies in a frenzied propaganda barrage that seems to unkennel all the yelping dogs...
...Manhattan's Penn Station. Though the area was largely occupied by factories, Tishman thought it would be ideal for commuting office workers. He was right; other companies followed his lead. Right after World War II, the firm built the first fully air-conditioned office building and the first metalclad office building in Manhattan...
...year lease on nearly half the proposed building. They took the plans and tentative leases to the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which put up $37.5 million in principal financing for the building. Next month the Socony Mobil Building, world's largest air-conditioned commercial structure and largest metalclad building, will be opened...
Faith alone does not move mountains in Washington. Commander Rosendahl and disciples have had assistance from three companies interested in building more dirigibles. These are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whose Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche's Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently organized at Richmond to develop a new "tunnel ship" (with propellers mounted tandem in a tunnel through the ship's centre...