From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   > I note as the product of a web search the death of H(arold) John   
   > Riley,Jr.,born November 13th 1940,on June 1st 2024.   
   >   
   > He rose through the ranks of Crouse-Hinds Company,with which   
   > my father once had a patent licensing agreement,and then Cooper   
   > Industries,which acquired Crouse-Hinds in 1981 and of which I   
   > was a shareholder for decades.Crouse-Hinds manufactured   
   > electrical products,and as CEO (from September 30th 1995)   
   > and chairman(from 1986) of Cooper,Riley arranged for the   
      
   ...1996 of course.   
      
   > spinoff of the non-electrical-product parts of Cooper.   
      
   I should mention that when he sold Cooper Automotive   
   (which had been pieced together from the auto-parts businesses   
   McGraw-Edison had retained from its predecessor Studebaker-Packard   
   with the acquisitions of Champion Spark Plug and Moog Automotive)   
   to Federal Mogul,Cooper Industries received 48% of the stock of   
   Federal-Mogul but agreed to essentially have no say in the   
   direction of F-M by committing to always vote its shares in   
   the same proportions as chosen by the owners of the other 52%.   
   Soon after that deal Federal-Mogul made other acquisitions with   
   enormous asbestos liabilities and plunged into bankruptcy.   
      
   > After his retirement,his successor presided over the sale   
   > of what was left of Cooper to Eaton Corporation.   
   >   
   > -=-=-   
   > The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   > at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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