Diversification Surges as Major Firms Enter New Industries
A General Tire & Rubber Co subsidiary is buying RKO Radio Pictures from Howard Hughes as firms broaden beyond core products. The article notes tire makers venturing into cosmetics and airplanes while others push into films, textiles, chemicals, and consumer goods, illustrating postwar diversification trends and merger-driven expansion.
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General Tire & Rubber Co
RKO Radio Pictures Corp
Howard Hughes
Rocket Motors
Diversification Across Industries Remakes Postwar Businesses
The piece notes steel firms moving into kitchen cabinets while shipbuilders and oil companies operate ships. General Motors tests diesel locomotives for railways as Du Pont expands into motion picture film and X ray media. Peacetime atomic use spurs new ventures across utilities, oil, chemicals, food, and electronics.
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General Motors
du Pont
Zemo Provides Quick Relief For Skin Rash And Itching
Zemo, a doctor's formula, relieves itching from surface skin rashes including eczema and prickly heat. It stops scratching and aids faster healing and clearing. Extra strength Zemo may help stubborn cases.
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Zemo
Real Estate Transfers and Cancellations in Middletown Area
A stream of real estate transfers and cancellations lists numerous pairs of grantors and grantees across Middletown and surrounding locales. Properties include multiple lots, parcels, and acres with prices ranging from under a dollar to thousands, plus several no tax entries and partial lot descriptions. Abstracts name buyers such as Walters, Thurman, Sandlin, Mack, Schmidt, Allen, Riggs, Rowland, Carlson, Wiggins, Swain, and many lenders like Midd. Federal and Second National. Locations include Avalon, Mayfield, Seven Mile, Home Acres, Beacon Hills, Reed, St. Clair, Madison, and Lemon. Cancellations recap moves to Midd. Fed. and First Nat Bank with varied lot numbers and acreages.
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Troy Whitt
Homer Zornes
Wayne
Bernard Allen
Laura Denniston
William Carmichael
Avalon
Viola Thurman
Clinton Riggs
Beacon Hills
James Becraft
Walter Rowland Jr
Mayfield
Paul Brooks
Duwayne Carlson
Dixie
John Wirtley
Larry Fagin
Seven Mile
John Paullin
David Wiggins
Paullin
Floyd Mynhier
Virgil Swain
Clifton Farms
Blanche Brell
Benny Nickell
Curtis Hughes
J.C. Mason
Home Acres
Mary Whitt
Glen Hoover
Miami Conservancy
City of
Destructive Storm Strikes Borrego Springs Area
High winds and heavy rain battered Borrego Springs in eastern San Diego County. A business building was demolished and a church and two houses were unroofed while 7.29 inches of rain fell in 35 minutes. No injuries were reported.
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San Diego
Calif
Borrego Springs
San Diego County
Five Middletown students named to UC Dean's List
University of Cincinnati announces five Middletown students on the Dean's List for the second semester. Dale M. Kohler and James R. Meyers are engineering juniors, Robert G. Linkins earned a bachelor of business administration at June 3 commencement, Gerald Ragland is a pharmacy sophomore, and Samuel W. Russell is a sophomore in engineering. The dean's list recognizes the top 10 percent of each class.
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Middletown
University of Cincinnati
Raymond Walters
University
Dale M. Kohler
Ruth A. Kohler
Ardmore Dr
College of Engineering
Robert G. Linkins
Arthur E. Linkins
Moore Rd
James R. Meyers
Edward F. Meyers
Charles St
Gerald Ragland
Lawrence Ragland
S. Main St
Lege
Samuel W. Russell
Elmo Ave
Gable and Kay Spreckels Home at Encino Ranch
Actor Clark Gable and his bride Kay Williams Spreckels are at their Encino ranch planning a permanent home there and a new house in Palm Springs. Reporters were told by telephone that the gates were locked to visitors. they wed July 11 in Minden Nevada.
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Encino
Calif
Clark Gable
Kay Williams Spreckels
Encino Ranch
Palm Springs
Gable
Minden
Nev
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Business Mirror
New York
William J. Miller
King Features, Inc
U.S
Econd Avenue
Broad G Verity Parkway
Floyd Edginton
C.T. Walters
Carl Barthelmas
David Thurman
James Profitt
Oscar Sandlin
Gustav Banzhof
William Mack
August Schmidt
John Schmidt
Floyd Edgington
Midd
Arthur Markland
John Howard
Mary Brell
County
Roscoe Skidmore
William Moore Jr
Runnymeade S
Ray McMonigle
Oneida
Ray Perry
Maple Park
John Back
First Nati. Bok. Midd. Mayfield
Clyde Dalton
Sharonville Peoples Bidg. L. Liberty
Curt Fulks
Kenneth Miller
Madison
Herbert Wilson
John Berger
Port Union Pt
Shade Dunci
DIAL
Cable
Bride
Plisse
Cotter
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Dorothy Gray
P.J
Ross
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