Local lore said it had been bought in 1980 by the owner of an air-conditioning company.

Mr. Grande was given a job at the mission after he completed the program, eventually leaving in 1974 to marry and take a job in an air-conditioning company.

Her father owns TraneOregon, an air-conditioning company in Portland.

"I think local stations would be wise to contact air-conditioning companies to ask about buying extra time when the weather is hot," Ms. McGlynn said.

I once said in a frivolous moment when he got out of the race, if you can't stand the heat buy an air-conditioning company.

Mr. Roth went to work for Trane, an air-conditioning company, after he finished school, and worked his way to the top.

My father was a sales supervisor for a commercial air-conditioning company and my mother was a midwife and then a theatre sister.

Twenty-two years ago, Jim Fassel was a salesman for an air-conditioning company.

"I told the air-conditioning company that my customers were going to faint and that we'd suffer 100 percent of our business if they didn't install it immediately," he said.

An engineer in an air-conditioning company in Buffalo had his 10-year-old son with him.