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Louis F. Polk, Jr.
Louis F. "Bo" Polk Jr. (born c. 1930) is an American businessman who was briefly president of MGM. Biography Polk had studied engineering at Yale and had an MBA from Harvard. He joined General Mills in Minneapolis in 1960, working as financial controller and director, instigating rapid change, becoming a youth-conscious organization with a growing group of young managers and closing almost half of their mills and diversifying into other businesses such as Parker Brothers and Play-Doh Play-Doh, also known as Play-Dough, is a modeling compound for young children to make arts and crafts projects. The product was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s. Play-Doh was then rewor .... He had no previous involvement in movie making but he had impressed Edgar Bronfman, Sr. then the major shareholder in MGM. There was opposition to his appointment within MGM but he was elected as a director in December 1968 and named president in Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayton Daily News
The ''Dayton Daily News'' (''DDN'') is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio. It is owned by Cox Enterprises, Inc., a privately held global conglomerate headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, with approximately 55,000 employees and $21 billion in total revenue. Its major operating subsidiaries are Cox Communications, Cox Automotive, and Ohio Newspapers (including the ''Dayton Daily News'', ''Springfield News-Sun'' and the ''Journal-News'' papers). Headquarters The ''Dayton Daily News'' has its headquarters in the Manhattan Building in downtown Dayton, 601 E. Third St. The newspaper's editorial and business offices were moved there in January, 2022. For more than 100 years the paper's editorial offices and printing presses were located in downtown Dayton. From 1999 to 2017, the paper was printed at the Print Technology Center near Interstate 75 in Franklin about 15 minutes to the south. In 2017, the ''Dayton Daily News''s parent company came to an agreement wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |