Well known local industries include the Vulcan Materials Company construction aggregate quarry and the Plantation Pipeline depot and tank farm.

The quarrying legend continues today at the Vulcan Materials Company McCook Quarry, with a total of in Hodgkins and McCook.

* Vulcan Materials Company McCook Quarry

McCook is home to a large amount of heavy industry, including portions of Vulcan Materials Company McCook Quarry, UOP, and the Electro-Motive Diesel ( EMD ) railroad locomotive plant.

* Vulcan Materials Company

Carroll is a member of the Board of Directors of other companies, including Boise Cascade, Vulcan Materials, American Express, Scottish Power, and Texas Medical Center.

* Vulcan Materials

It is the second largest producer of crushed stone, sand, and gravel in the United States behind Vulcan Materials Company.

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Her father William Houston Blount, ran Vulcan Materials for many years and his brother Winton M. " Red " Blount, Postmaster General in Richard Nixon's cabinet.

In 1968, GEC merged with English Electric, incorporating Elliott Brothers, the Marconi Company, Ruston & Hornsby, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry, Willans & Robinson and Dick, Kerr & Co.

Some of the companies that located in Ranson early on included the Hotel Powhatan, the Goetz Saddlery, the Shenandoah Brass and Iron Works, the Elemer E. Beachley Saw and Planing Mill, the John Farrin Boiler and Machine Shop, and the Vulcan Road Machine Company.

Some 2, 987 tanks were produced by the Vulcan Foundry, John Fowler & Co. of Leeds, Ruston & Hornsby, and later by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at Horwich Works ; Harland and Wolff, and the North British Locomotive Company Glasgow.

Other early examples included the ' Vulcan ', the first inside-cylinder type, built by Charles Tayleur and Company in 1835 for the Leicester and Swannington Railway, and ' Hector ', a Long Boiler locomotive built by Kitson and Company in 1845 for the York and North Midland Railway.

Around this time Shelton became art director for the Vulcan Gas Company, a rock music venue in Austin, Texas, where he worked with Jim Franklin.

Austin was home to the Vulcan Gas Company that featured headliners such as the 13th Floor Elevators, ( Johnny and Edgar ) Winter brothers, and Shiva's Headband.

For ten years, McGregor also managed the British-owned Canada Land and Irrigation Company and helped build reservoirs and canal systems near Milo, in Vulcan County, Alberta.

The next engine bought for the line was Vulcan, an 0-6-0 by Tayleur and Company.

Introduced in 1927, seventy-eight were built before World War II by Vulcan Foundry, North British Locomotive Company ( NBL ), Armstrong Whitworth and Škoda Works.

There was also a Class XE that was built by William Beardmore and Company and Vulcan Foundry.

The company had become The Vulcan Foundry Company in 1847 and acquired limited liability in 1864.

The Vulcan Foundry benefited from orders for XE, XD, and YD 2-8-2s ; and ten WG 2-8-2s sub-contracted from the North British Locomotive Company, but the writing was on the wall for all British manufacturers.

In 1918, the club was renamed as Southport Vulcan – having been bought by the Vulcan Motor Company – becoming the first club to take a sponsor's name.

They were built by the English Electric Company, works numbers 3954-6 ( although the Irish Traction Group lists them as D1266-D1268 ), at their Vulcan Foundry works in Newton-le-Willows in 1969.

The Vulcan Copper and Supply Company was contracted to construct and operate a plant to convert sawdust into ethanol.

It was used in the 1960s by poster artists such as underground comic artist Gilbert Shelton, who designed posters for a venue in Austin, Texas called The Vulcan Gas Company.

In June 1946, the General Electric Company was awarded a U. S. military defense contract to develop an aircraft gun with a high rate of fire which GE termed Project Vulcan.

Vulcan martial arts are highly ritualistic and based on philosophy, similar to Human counterparts such as karate and Silat.

As a bit of stage " business " in the episode " Amok Time ", he invented the famous " Live long and prosper " Vulcan salute based on the hand symbol used by Jewish priests ( kohanim ) during the Priestly Blessing in the synagogue.

Vulcan Ventures first invested in ZDTV, a network that supplemented content from Ziff-Davis ' computer and technology based print publications ( at the time including PC Magazine, MacWEEK, and eWEEK ), in November 1998, acquiring a one-third interest from Ziff-Davis.

* May 1-A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber based on Ascension Island attacks the airfield at Port Stanley on East Falkland Island.

The first special, subtitled " The Challenge ", was loosely based on the Super Friends and the 1960s Batman series ( played for laughs, but this time, including a laugh track ) and included several other DC characters who replaced Samurai, Black Vulcan, and Apache Chief: Black Canary, the E-2 Huntress Helena Wayne ( a new DC character, gathering her own following in All-Star and Adventure Comics JSA runs as a JSA member ), and Shazam!

During the initial proceedings it was learned that dBASE's file format and language had been based on a mainframe product used at JPL, where Ratliff had been working when he first created Vulcan.

The character of Surak in the Star Trek television series backstory, after up-ending the Vulcan people's violent tribalism with a philosophy of communal commitment to reason and logic, dies in the 4th century AD ( based upon Earth's calendar, approximately 1, 800 years before the events of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Awakening "), apparently of radiation poisoning caused by a nuclear attack that devastates Vulcan.

While there was a non-commercial predecessor to the Ashton-Tate product ( Vulcan written by Wayne Ratliff ), most clones are based on Ashton-Tate's 1986 dBASE III + release — scripts written in the dBASE III + dialect are most likely to run on all the clones.

The Vulcan left Bruntingthorpe at the beginning of the 2008 flying display season, was temporarily based at RAF Brize Norton as a flying base, and RAF Lyneham as its winter maintenance base.

As part of their exodus, they intentionally invent a new culture and a new language, based on Old High Vulcan and " aged " in a different direction.

Vulcan Iron Works, based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, manufactured railroad locomotives such as those shown in the illustration.

Vulcan XH558 was based at Finningley between 1960 and 1968

Vulcan Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vulcan International Corporation, based in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Fires of Vulcan is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ), does criticize the Vulcan society for having this prejudice based on a " disagreement " over how someone conducts their private life.

The main concern was that at shorter distances the missile would not have time to lock onto the target before it flew out of range, so to serve this need a second vehicle based around the M61 Vulcan cannon was specified.

Vulcan, based in Southport, England, made cars from 1902 until 1928 and commercial vehicles until 1953.