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Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman and investor who founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
Mar 29, 1971 · Sherman Mills Fairchild, a restless inventor with the imag ination and personal wealth to develop major industries from his ideas, died yesterday in Roosevelt Hospital after a long illness.
Sherman Fairchild hired Lester Hogan, who was the head of Motorola semiconductor division. Hogan proceeded to hire another hundred managers from Motorola to entirely displace the management of Fairchild.
Sherman Mills Fairchild was an American businessman and inventor in the middle of the 20th century. His entire business holdings are not fully known, but a former Fairchild employee, Theron Rinehart, compiled an incomplete list of companies that Fairchild owned.
Oct 20, 2017 · When his father died on the last day of that year, Sherman Fairchild became IBM’s largest individual shareholder, and remained so until his death in 1971. Fairchild was an extraordinary man, creative, unconventional and what you might call multidexterous.
Jan 12, 2009 · Sherman Fairchild, the photographer who transformed aviation. Conducting aerial surveys in the 1920s took an intrepid soul. The airplane’s open cockpit—and it was always open—was windy,...
Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman and investor who founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument.
