Word: smokestack
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...Harvard had set out to construct MATEP, ordering the six diesel engines necessary to run the plant, storing them in a South Boston warehouse and launching construction on the 315 ft. smokestack...
...Robed in rich yellow brick,” and crowned by a smokestack that Barr compared to an Italian basilica, the Necco factory united the three ideals coined by the earliest Roman architect: Venustas, architectural beauty; Firmitas, “exquisite structural virtuosity;” and Utilitas—usefulness—the trait that made the building “genuinely modern...
Shots of a train snaking through the German countryside and gray smoke billowing out of a smokestack bookend the post-World War II film The Lost...
...cheaper than the national average. But other towns in several states can offer the same deal. Public officials in the Tupelo area lure industry with low taxes, free road and rail connections--even subsidized rent and low-interest loans. But much of America engages in that kind of smokestack chasing. Tupelo has a low cost of living and cheap, nonunion labor. So does South Carolina. So does South America...
...Neill left government after Ford lost in 1976 and spent 23 years turning cyclical smokestack companies into sturdy profit centers. He first worked his way up the executive ranks of International Paper by boosting the quality of its products, shutting down marginal plants and investing heavily in others. While working at IP in the dark days of the late 1970s, O'Neill made a habit of visiting the plants of competitors overseas that were stealing market share, and then bringing back ways to beat them at their own game. In the late 1980s, he took over as CEO of Alcoa...