Red Lobster: Endless Shrimp, a $1.5 Billion Leaseback and Chapter 11
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Red Lobster opened in Lakeland, Florida, in 1968, founded by Bill Darden and Charlie Woodsby to ...
21 Okt 22min
Emerson Electric: First US Electric Fans, Bomber Turrets and a TV Lawsuit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In October 2006 NBC's Heroes showed cheerleader Claire Bennet regenerating a hand mangled in a g...
21 Okt 21min
Eli Lilly: Gelatin-Coated Pills, Iletin Insulin and Wartime Blood Plasma
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Colonel Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical chemist and Union artillery officer in the Civil War, went t...
21 Okt 25min
Novartis: Delysid LSD, the CIA's MKUltra and a $678 Million Kickback Deal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Novartis grew from three Basel dye makers: Alexander Clavel, who produced the purple-red dye fuc...
21 Okt 25min
Duqu: Stuxnet's Spy Sibling Hidden in a Word Font and a Hubble Photo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In April 2011 Iran announced its systems had been hit by a new attack it called the Stars virus,...
21 Okt 24min
Dunkin': The Handled Dunking Donut, Fred the Baker and Korea's Chicken Leg
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bill Rosenberg ran industrial catering trucks around Boston and noticed that workers mostly boug...
21 Okt 21min
Washington Dulles: Saarinen's Mobile Lounges, Lost Willard and the Hub Era
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1958 President Eisenhower chose a site 26 miles west of Washington for a second airport, and ...
21 Okt 22min
AH-64 Apache: A Key West Loophole, Desert Storm and the Drone-Era Sunset
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 1948 Key West Agreement gave fixed-wing strike aircraft to the new Air Force, leaving the U....
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