Word: tenneco
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...make and sell the revolutionary machine. By 1902 the firm had merged with four others and was called International Harvester. Last week the company (1985 sales: $3.5 billion) dropped that historic name. International Harvester, which last year sold its farm-implement business to the J I Case division of Tenneco, emerged from a nine-month-long name-lift operation as Navistar International. The new name, a blend of navigate and star, refers to the company's remaining line of business--medium and heavy trucks--and its goal of stellar performance...
...populated mostly by farmers and coal miners. Then, in 1978, the Department of Energy announced that it would finance a $2.1 billion commercial synthetic-fuels plant, the first in the U.S., to be built on the outskirts of Beulah. Operated by a five-member consortium of energy companies, including Tenneco and Transco Energy, the 600-acre project would turn coal into natural gas and be the centerpiece of the Government's efforts to produce substitutes for expensive imported oil. When the Great Plains Gasification Project opened in July 1984, Beulah was booming. Its population had jumped from...