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Other firms prefer to handle deadbeats on their own. During the 1973-75 recession, the Trane Co., an air conditioner manufacturer in La Crosse, Wis., had to carry $750 million in due bills. Now, Trane starts leaning on customers after 30 days. If the bill is not paid within 90 days, Trane goes to court and obtains a mechanic's lien on the building where the equipment is installed. Recalcitrant contractors usually pay up fast...
Tribute to Bird-Trane-Mingus--Jaki Byard, Dick Johnson, Billy Pierce, Billy Thompson, Stanton Davis, Boots Maleson, and Semenyk McCord; Emmannuel Church, Boton...
...scorcher of '73, when perspiring consumers bought a grand total of 5.3 million room-size air-conditioning units and 2.8 million central cooling systems. Then sales plunged, reaching a low of 4.2 million conditioners of all types in 1975. The manufacturers, led by five big firms-Carrier, Trane, Fedders, Lennox and General Electric-have also seen their air-conditioner sales fall off as a result of the recession-induced decline in the construction of new homes and office buildings...
Tyner's course is a strange one. He spent his formative years playing with John Coltrane, sticking with Trane for more than five years. His excellent piano work on albums like "My Favorite Things," both fast and slow versions, and on the series of Coltrane quartet albums of the 1963-64 period, identified Tyner as a standout on his own right...
...when Trane died in 1967, leaving Tyner to fend for himself, the mellow piano player turned vicous. He stayed that way right through the early portion of the 1970s. Albums like "sama Layuca" and "Song of the New World" lost that pleasing sound that he had created with Trane...