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Siegler Corporation of Centralia, Illinois, for $ 3.3 million; $ 3.2 million of this was borrowed for 24 hours at a cost of $ 60,000. Over the next decade and a half, Brooks, who became Siegler’s first president, established a reputation for supervising numerous startling acquisitions.
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Siegler Corporation (Los Angeles) and Lear Avionics Inc. (Santa Monica) that was concluded in 1961, though leadership was substantially from the Siegler side of the merger. Initially, Brooks was Chairman of the Board of the new corporation and Albert G.
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