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

[Elliot Blaize Jr.]

"Rand Araskog"....he was the SOB who sold the employees out.  He seemed 
to be only concerned he could retain his "New York penthouse" over 
everything else from what I heard.

73, Sandy W5TVW
On 1/12/2015 2:35 PM, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:
> Harold Geneen was the CEO who bought companies in the 1960's and 70's. He turned ITT into a Congolmerate.
>
> It was Rand Araskog in the 1970's who divested ITT of various holdings. It got out of the Telecom field in the mid 1980's.
>
> Mike N2MS
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> From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> To: Elliot Blaize Jr. <ebjr37 at charter.net>, mstangelo at comcast.net, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
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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
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