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Major thoroughfares are not for sale, but Laredo is crosshatched with little-used road ways that end in creeks or ditches. Abutting businesses get first crack at the roads, which can be converted to other uses. The Missouri Pacific Railroad is interested in buying twelve streets on the west side for parking lots...
Giorgetto Giugiaro, 43, has added an additional dimension to smart looks: ingenious practicality for both consumer and manufacturer. He wants his products not only to look better than the competition but also to work better. Many critics see in Giugiaro the successor to Raymond Loewy (Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives, Pepsodent toothpaste packaging) as the world's leading industrial designer. When Giugiaro was 21, admiring countrymen were already calling him "Geniaccio" (Little Genius...
George Westinghouse, the son of a farm-equipment manufacturer, speeded the growth of two modern industries. The airbrake that he invented in 1869 at age 22 made highspeed railroad travel safe for the first time. Then, 17 years later, he formed the Westinghouse Electric Co. to develop alternating current and make the first big generators and transformers. These made possible the wide-scale use of electricity. By 1900, Westinghouse's enterprises were valued at $120 million and employed about 50,000 workers. Then, as now, risk takers can run into trouble. Westinghouse was forced out as head...
Certain regions of the U.S. have always seemed to lure venturesome people more than others. At the beginning of the 20th century, many automotive pioneers came to Detroit. There they found a deep-waterport and a good railroad system that gave easy access to supplies of coal and iron and a convenient way to ship their new cars back to local markets. They also found a prosperous wagon-making industry with a pool of skilled craftsmen, as well as a bustling atmosphere that encouraged innovation and manufacturing...
Actor Paul Newman, a founder of Energy Action, a consumer group, said in Washington last week that the whole operation makes "the railroad robber barons look like cheap stuff." Ralph Nader claimed that consumers were being forced to pay for the pipeline without having a say in management...