[Milsurplus] Robert Galvin, longtime Motorola president, obituary

[Hue Miller]

Oct. 9, 1922 - Oct. 11, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/technology/robert-w-galvin-who-led-motorola-dies-at-89.html

Small excerpt:

"The company had begun by making “battery eliminators,” devices to plug 
radios into electrical systems
in homes and cars. (Radios were originally battery-operated.) By 1940, 
Galvin Manufacturing had evolved
into America’s premier maker of car radios and two-way radios, called 
Handie-Talkies. After World War II
broke out they became walkie-talkies, and the Army bought $10 million worth. 
Galvin also prospered in
government contracts for radar systems.

During the war, Robert served in the Army Signal Corps. In 1942, his mother 
was killed by robbers who had
invaded the Galvin home in Evanston. With her death, inheritance taxes 
forced the family to take the company
public in 1943 with the sale of 40,000 shares. Joseph Galvin, in charge of 
labor relations and production, died
in 1944, leaving Robert as sole heir. The same year, Robert married Mary 
Barnes. "

via: Hue Miller.