[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] [BoatAnchors] Mackay Marine Mystery

[Elliot Blaize Jr.]

Sounds interesting!  I'll look for any post of what you came up with.  
That seems to be ancient history to me now!
The spinoff was quite a disturbing event to us.

73,
Sandy W5TVW
On 1/12/2015 12:17 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elliot Blaize Jr." 
> <ebjr37 at charter.net>
> To: <mstangelo at comcast.net>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] [BoatAnchors] Mackay Marine 
> Mystery
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>
>> Hello all, again...
>>
>> ITT Mackay was one of the castoffs in  a selling of "divisions" of 
>> ITT when they were spun off as "Mackay Electronics" as I vaguely 
>> remember at the time.  Many divisions were sold off. This was after 
>> someone named Ginene or
>
>     Hal or Harrold Gennine, or something like that, I also am not sure 
> of the spelling. Geninne(?) was famous, or maybe notorious, for all 
> sorts of mergers on the philosophy that you must diversify or die.  He 
> traveled all around the world, living on hamburgers, in persuit of 
> this. I have not tried a Google search but I am sure it would find 
> both the right spelling and a lot of background information on him.
>
>
> -- 
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com