Sentence examples for corporate ancestor from inspiring English sources

Then comes 140 West Street itself, designed by Ralph Walker and completed in 1927 for New York Telephone, the corporate ancestor of Nynex, Bell Atlantic and Verizon.

A Verizon corporate ancestor, the New York Telephone Company, built 140 West Street as its headquarters and used it as such until 1972.

The developments renewed fear that Lucent, whose roots stretch to 1856 when a corporate ancestor combined telegraph gear with electrical equipment, might be forced to take financial measures that would reduce the value of its shares drastically.

Shipboard gambling in the unregulated international waters off New York City has had a choppy ride since Casino New York's corporate ancestor, Bay Casino, began running boats in December 1996, surprising -- and displeasing -- Mr. Giuliani.

American oil companies, of course, started Cuba's oil industry, with the corporate ancestor of Exxon, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, once controlling the nation's first refinery in Belot across the bay from Havana.

Its corporate ancestor, such as it is, is a company known as Pixargus, which uses cameras and software to handle quality control on the production lines making certain car parts and medical devices.

The company, whose corporate ancestors go back 82 years, said it would put Twinkies on the auction block, along with its other famous brands, including Ho Hos, Sno Balls, Ring Dings and Wonder Bread.

This desirable "beachfront" low-frequency spectrum — so-called because these frequencies travel well over long distances and inside buildings, which means operators have to build just a third or a fourth as many towers as they do in areas where they're using higher frequencies — went to the corporate ancestors of today's AT&T and Verizon.

Having a AAA rating allowed it to borrow money at dirt-cheap interest rates, and the company and its corporate ancestors had held that rating since 1930.

Tobacco companies like Philip Morris turned in the 1950s to oil giants like Shell and the corporate ancestors of today's Exxon Mobil for help analyzing what was in cigarette smoke and tar, the documents show.

Call it basic instinct, but the correlation between corporate risk takers and adventure travelers may date back to our prehistoric ancestors.