Category: Business and Industry

The CLEVELAND REPORTER was established midway through a 4-week newspaper strike in Nov. 1956, as a substitute for Cleveland's 3 closed dailies. The tabloid made its first appearance on 5 Nov. 1956, 3 days after publication ceased on a combined edition of the Plain Dealer, News, and Press. It was published by striking newsmen and printers, using the facilities of the United Publishing Co.

The CLEVELAND ROCKET SOCIETY, formed ca. 1933, was an organization of area residents who studied the possibilities of liquid-propelled rocket flight and conducted experiments in that field. Founded and led by ERNST LOEBELL, a German-born engineer who worked for Otis Elevator Co.

The CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL STRIKES occurred during the summer of 1882 and 1885 and involved skilled workers who were largely of British origin, as well as Polish and Czech unskilled laborers who were working in the company's facilities near present-day Jones Rd. and Broadway. In May 1882, the Amalgamated Assn.

CLEVELAND ROLLING MILLS. See U.S. STEEL CORP.


The CLEVELAND SHOPPING NEWS thrived between the two world wars on the concept of a newspaper consisting wholly of ads and delivered gratis. Though claiming to be the first of its breed, the paper had remote antecedents on the local scene in 2 pre-Civil War publications, the Commercial Gazette and the Commercial Advertiser (ca. 1856-61). From its initial issue of 15 Oct.

The CLEVELAND SPONSORED FILM FESTIVAL, not to be confused with the CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, was first held on 17 June 1948.

The CLEVELAND SUNDAY SUN was introduced on 10 Oct. 1880 by W. Scott Robison, one of the original founders of the Sunday Voice. Like its contemporary competitors, it contained 8 pages and sold for $.05. Editorial offices were at 134 St. Clair Ave. Besides the emphasis placed on graphics, the Sun began a women's feature and opened a column to amateur poets.

The CLEVELAND SUNDAY TIMES served as the name for 3 different publications in the 1870s. First came the Cleveland Sunday Times of 17 Sept. 1871, the first Sunday newspaper issued in Cleveland since the short-lived Sunday Morning Review of 1858. Published by Mr. Saltiel and William P.

CLEVELAND TANK PLANT. See I-X CENTER.


The CLEVELAND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES COUNCIL was organized on 13 Oct. 1941 by 24 technical societies in Cleveland to coordinate the activities of local engineering and technical groups. The organization's goals were to function as a unifying force in technical fields and provide expert counsel on technical matters.

The CLEVELAND TIMES (1845) first appeared on a local masthead as the name of a Democratic weekly started on 10 Sept. 1845. Published by Horace Steele and Peter Baxter, it was edited by the former and appeared on Wednesdays. Within a few weeks it claimed 400 subscribers in Cleveland, as well as 100 in Painesville, which appeared to have been Steele's former base of operations.

The CLEVELAND TIMES (1922) represented the last serious attempt to establish another daily newspaper in Cleveland. It survived for 5 years in the mid-1920s. The paper began as the Cleveland Commercial on 2 Mar. 1922; it was renamed the Cleveland Times & Commercial by the following year and eventually became simply the Times. Published by the Cleveland Commercial Publishing Co.

CLEVELAND TOMORROW, a private civic organization made up of chief executive officers of the largest companies in the Cleveland-area, was created in 1981 to improve the long-term economic health of Cleveland. Founded by several important business and industrial leaders, including Ruben F. Mettler, chairman of TRW, INC.; E.

The CLEVELAND TRINIDAD PAVING CO., one of the leading asphaltic paving firms, was founded in 1890 by MATTHEW FREDERICK BRAMLEY (1868-1941). Originally natural asphalt was used, a material originating on the island of Trinidad—thus the company's name.

CLEVELAND TRUST CO. See AMERITRUST.


CLEVELAND TWIST DRILL. See ACME-CLEVELAND.


The CLEVELAND UNION STOCKYARDS CO. was organized as the Cleveland Union Stockyards in 1881 and incorporated as the Cleveland Union Stockyards Co. in 1892. In 1893 it acquired the Farmers & Drovers' Stockyards Co. Originally located on Scranton Rd., it moved to 3200 W. 65th after a landslide destroyed the first site.

The CLEVELAND WHIG, after the appearance of a specimen issue on 20 Aug., began regular weekly publication under the editorship of Lewis L. Rice on 10 Sept. 1834. Politically, it advanced Whig party ideals and was sympathetic toward the rising antislavery movement. Francis B. Penniman of Utica, NY, joined Rice in a partnership from Jan. 1835 to Apr. 1836.

The CLEVELAND WORLD was the local version of the "yellow journalism" of the 1890s. An outgrowth of the Sunday World, it first appeared as an afternoon daily in the summer of 1889. Throughout its 16-year existence, it was published on Ontario St. near St. Clair and sold for $.01. Shortly after its birth as a daily, the World became the property of B. F.

The CLEVELAND WORLD TRADE ASSN., Intl. Division of the GREATER CLEVELAND GROWTH ASSN., was organized to perpetuate and expand international trade in the Greater Cleveland area, as well as to promote and implement foreign investments in northeast Ohio. Formed when the Cleveland Export-Import Assn.

The CLEVELAND WORSTED MILL CO. was one of the largest worsted mills in the country by 1920. The firm originally grew out of the family-owned Turner Worsted Mill, founded by Joseph Turner in 1878. When the Turner mill failed in 1893, KAUFMAN HAYS and Geo. H. Hodgson were called in to manage the firm. Oliver M.

The CLEVELAND, SOUTHWESTERN & COLUMBUS RAILWAY, the 2nd-largest interurban in the state at one time, connected Cleveland with Columbus to the south and Norwalk to the west. It originally was chartered in 1876 as a horsecar line known as the CLEVELAND & BEREA STREET RAILWAY, but it did not exercise its full franchise privileges.

CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC. is North America's largest supplier of iron-ore pellets to the steel industry and is the oldest iron-mining firm with headquarters in Cleveland. The company's origin dates to 9 Nov. 1847, when 15 Cleveland men interested in exploring the vast iron ore deposits on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan formed the Cleveland Iron Mining Co.

The CLEVELAND-CUYAHOGA COUNTY PORT AUTHORITY is the joint city-county board formed in 1968 to operate the Port of Cleveland. Although port authority proposals began circulating in the 1920s and 1930s, it wasn't until the 1950s that the Ohio general assembly authorized the creation of city, county, or joint city/county port authorities with the power to levy a voter-approved tax of up to .55 mill. Although the St.