Dresser-Rand, a 100-year-old company based in Olean, N.Y., is owned by the Ingersoll-Rand Company, which has $9.9 billion in annual revenue.

The Ingersoll-Rand Company said yesterday that it had acquired Mascotech Inc.'s Steelcraft Division, which makes steel doors used primarily in nonresidential construction.

The Ingersoll-Rand Company announced yesterday that it would buy the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Thermo King division for $2.56 billion in cash.

Her great-grandfather George Doubleday was the chairman of the Ingersoll-Rand Company.

The Ingersoll-Rand Company went public with a $1.3 billion hostile bid for the Clark Equipment Company yesterday after Clark's board spurned its cash offer.

The bridegroom's grandfather the late George Doubleday was the chairman of the Ingersoll-Rand Company.

The case, Ingersoll-Rand Company v. McClendon, No. 89-1298, is an employer's appeal of a ruling by the Texas Supreme Court.

It rose 28 1/8 to 81 1/4, or roughly 53 percent, after the Ingersoll-Rand Company threatened on Tuesday to initiate a $1.34 billion hostile takeover.

He also was an industrial accountant for Ingersoll-Rand Company.

The Ingersoll-Rand Company, the equipment maker, had an 11 percent increase in revenue in 2003; over one-third of that gain resulted from currency translation.