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Lee Kramer, Construction Equipment Engineer, Dies at 67

2015-01-27 23:51:20| ENR.com: Headline News

Kramer played a key role in developing a broad lineup of telehandlers, which now includes XTreme XR7038, the largest model in the world.

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Tootsie Roll's Mel Gordon Dies At 95: Don't Fall For The Acquisition Hype Just Yet

2015-01-25 15:26:37| Food - Topix.net

Tootsie Roll Industries has been my long-time nemesis . I held a position in the stock for several years, seeing what I believed to be the enormous value in the brand combined with aging insider-owners Melvin and Ellen Gordon.

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Peggy Charren, who improved to children's TV, dies

2015-01-23 18:12:14| Telecom - Topix.net

Peggy Charren, the Massachusetts woman who waged a decades-long fight to improve the quality of children's television programming, has died. The grassroots organization grew to thousands of members, working with the Federal Communications Commission to establish a children's television division, and lobbying the National Association of Broadcasters to adopt voluntary guidelines for children's programming.

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Tootsie Roll stalwart Melvin J. Gordon dies

2015-01-23 00:41:23| Food - Topix.net

Tootsie Roll Industries' long-standing CEO and chairman of its Board of Directors Melvin J.Gordon has died aged 95. His wife Ellen R. Gordon, director of the company and its president and chief operating officer has been appointed Tootsie Roll's new CEO and chairman. Melvin J. Gordon died on Tuesday following a brief illness.

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