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Answer Man. Announcement No. 2 came out last week: Jack & Heintz Precision Industries would soon merge with Eisemann Corp., Brooklyn magneto makers. But it was only half the story. The rest was told by a man named Benjamin Charles Milner, Jr. a Manhattan engineer turned financier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Baby | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Whey-faced "B.C." Milner, 55, headed an eastern investment syndicate which had set up Precision Products Corp. It was a paper organization setup for one purpose: to buy out Jahco as quickly as possible. Through the "merger" device, the syndicate kept the valuable Jack & Heintz name intact-and also managed to convey the general impression that Bill Jack and Ralph Heintz were still very much in charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Baby | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Actually the two Clevelanders, sole owners of Jahco's common stock, had sold it all to the new company for $8 million ($5 million in cash, $3 million in preferred stock), no longer had any voting control in Jack & Heintz. Despite the chairmanship title given to Bill Jack, and the $40,000-a-year lifetime jobs promised to him and Heintz, his boss was now President B. C. Milner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Baby | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Milner had big plans for the new Jack & Heintz. First objective was completion of the merger-a real one this time-with Eisemann Corp., once the No. 1 U.S. magneto maker. Eisemann's ready-made distribution organization of 700 outlets would come in mighty handy once Jack & Heintz started rolling out such products as motors, engine parts, gages, ball bearings, for which, said Milner, $18 million worth of orders were already on hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Baby | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...most unfortunate things in Jahco was its having Bill Jack as public relations man." Nothing was said of the fact that this "unfortunate thing" was one big element in making the Jahco baby so good a buy for Milner and friends, a nice sale for partners Jack & Heintz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Baby | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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