State Farm: A Roofer's $17M Verdict, Katrina Whistleblowers and Jake
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!State Farm was founded in 1922 in Bloomington, Illinois, by retired farmer George J. Mecherle as...
19 Loka 21min
Los Angeles-Class Submarines: Rickover's Fish Don't Vote and 62 Boats
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Los Angeles class, known as the 688 class after lead boat SSN-688, grew from late-1960s alar...
19 Loka 22min
Seawolf Submarines: 29 Planned, 3 Built and the Cable-Tapping Jimmy Carter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Seawolf-class attack submarine began design work in 1983, when the U.S. Navy wanted a succes...
19 Loka 21min
Rolls-Royce: The 1971 Bankruptcy, a £671M Bribery Fine and a Moon Reactor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rolls-Royce Holdings traces back to 1904, when engineer Henry Royce, who made dynamos and electr...
19 Loka 22min
Marvel Comics: Timely's Android Torch, Junk Bonds and the Move to Burbank
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Marvel began in 1939 as Timely Publications, an offshoot of pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodm...
19 Loka 19min
Lockheed Martin: Sega Graphics Chips, 800 F-35 Bugs and a $1.6B Mystery
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lockheed Martin formed in 1995 from a $10 billion merger of the Lockheed Corporation, maker of t...
19 Loka 22min
HMS Queen Elizabeth: Islay Whisky, Robot Magazines and a Twin-Island Deck
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!HMS Queen Elizabeth, pennant number R08, is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy, c...
19 Loka 25min
BNSF Railway: Buffett's $44 Billion Bet and the Swinomish Trespass Ruling
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!BNSF Railway runs about 33,400 miles of track across 28 states and three Canadian provinces with...
19 Loka 22min
