In Bill Veeck formed an investment group that purchased the Cleveland Indians from Bradley's group for a reported $ 1. 6 million.

Cleveland tried to replenish the Treasury through issuance of bonds which could only be purchased with gold, with little effect but to increase the public debt, as the gold continued to be withdrawn in redemption for paper and silver currency.

Though Stepien eventually threatened to move the franchise to Toronto and rename it the Toronto Towers, but brothers George and Gordon Gund purchased the franchise in the mid 1980s and decided to keep the team in Cleveland ( a decade later, Toronto would eventually receive an expansion franchise, the Toronto Raptors.

In 1978, the North Stars were purchased by the owners of the Cleveland Barons ( formerly the California Golden Seals ), the Gund brothers, George III and Gordon.

Gordon and George Gund III became minority owners of the Seals in 1974, and were instrumental in their move to Cleveland in 1976 and a 1978 merger with the Minnesota North Stars, which they purchased that year.

Brett Cleveland has purchased his maternal grandparents house and several other pieces of property in Greater Bluffton.

In 1992 the Orchard Historical Society purchased the Rex Theatre from Don Cleveland family.

In 1930, Central Steel was purchased by the Cleveland based Republic Steel, along with Central Steel's other Massillon divisions including Massillon Union Drawn Steel and its stainless steel division Enduro Stainless.

In 1866, the old gristmill was purchased by the Cleveland Paper Company and refitted for paper manufacturing.

( Ellsworth's father Oliver Ellsworth had purchased over in the Western Reserve, including most of present-day Cleveland.

After efforts to free him, Nim was purchased by the Black Beauty Ranch, operated by The Fund for Animals, the group led by Cleveland Amory, in Texas.

In 1978 Volkswagen of America purchased the plant to supply stampings for its Westmoreland Assembly Plant, subsequently selling the plant when it closed Westmoreland in 1988 to Park Corporation of Cleveland, OH.

However after team owner Samuel Deutsch purchased the Canton Bulldogs in 1924, he merged the Canton team with his Indians and renamed his franchise the Cleveland Bulldogs.

In 1856, George Shawk purchased an electrical engineering business in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Fina Air fleet of 3 Saab 340 aircraft have been purchased by an aircraft leasing company and were later operated by RegionsAir as Continental Connection, flying out of Cleveland.

In 1979, Stadium Corp. and Modell were implicated in a lawsuit brought by Browns minority shareholder Robert Gries of Gries Sports Enterprises, who successfully alleged that Stadium Corp. manipulated the Browns ' accounting records to help Stadium Corp. and Modell absorb a loss on real property that had been purchased in the Cleveland suburb of Strongsville as a potential site for a new stadium.

The Barons name was revived in 2001 when the San Jose Sharks purchased their AHL affiliate, the Kentucky Thoroughblades, and relocated them to Cleveland, where they would play at the arena which was owned and operated by Sharks owners George and Gordon Gund.

Dan Gilbert, the owner of the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers, purchased the inactive Utah Grizzlies AHL franchise and moved it to Cleveland.

Trico later settled a patent dispute with Folberth and purchased Folberth's Cleveland company, the Folberth Auto Specialty Co.

On August 1, 1958, a seven acre ( 28, 000 m² ) tract of land was purchased in Cleveland, Tennessee, and the church undertook a project similar to the Fields of the Wood, which is owned by the Church of God of Prophecy.

A lecture tour produced anxiety and stress, and he purchased a handgun in Cleveland with the intention of killing himself.

John Collins Bryant, Henry Beadman Bryant, and Henry Dwight Stratton were early graduates of Folsom Business College in Cleveland, Ohio, which they later purchased from the owner of the school, Ezekiel G. Folsom, who founded his school in 1848.

After the season ended, the Cleveland Indians purchased Coveleski from Portland, and he joined the major league squad in 1916.

In 1995, Art Modell, who had purchased the Browns in 1961, announced he was relocating the team to Baltimore, Maryland.

After being dismissed as the Browns ' head coach by Art Modell ( who had purchased majority interest in the team in ) in January, Brown had shown interest in establishing another NFL franchise in Ohio and looked at both Cincinnati and Columbus.

The Small family purchased the Post from longtime owner / operators the Browns in the early 1980s.

On May 10, 1933, the Boston Red Sox purchased Ferrell from the financially-strapped Browns.

Before the 1899 season, the Browns were purchased by the owner of the competing Cleveland Spiders and renamed the Perfectos.

Amid rumors of a move to Milwaukee or Houston, Anheuser-Busch bought the Redbirds, and after the Browns moved to Baltimore in 1954, it also purchased the ballpark, renaming it Busch Stadium ( but only after a failed attempt to name the ground Budweiser Park ).

Williams hit 24 home runs along with a. 313 batting average for Portland in before being purchased by the St. Louis Browns.

Fairport Electric has purchased power from the New York Power Authority since 1961.

The land was purchased from the Self family, who own and run Whitehall Garden Centre, in 1961.

Amrep Corporation purchased 55, 000 acres ( 220 km² ) in 1961 and turned the land into a housing development called " Rio Rancho Estates " with the first families moving in the early 1960s, most of whom were New Yorkers.

In 1961 property millionaire Alfred E. Allnatt offered King's the Adoration of the Magi by Peter Paul Rubens, which he had purchased in 1959 for a world-record price.

The Trust purchased the reserve in 1969, the line having been closed in 1961.

* Check-Mate Records: Short-lived ( 1961 – 1962 ) R & B / soul subsidiary, purchased from Chess Records.

In 1961, Rolls-Royce purchased Napier's aero-engine business, and continued to market the Gazelle, dropping the Eland.

Capital Cities Communications, then known as Capital Cities Broadcasting, purchased the WKBW stations from Clinton Churchill in 1961.

The magazine was purchased by The Washington Post Company in 1961.

To house the museum, in 1974 Noguchi purchased a photogravure plant and gas station located across the street from his New York studio, where he had worked and lived since 1961.

When the Milwaukee Road purchased new Budd Company stainless steel bilevel cars in 1961, the Rock Island elected to add to a subsequent order and took delivery of its first bilevel equipment in 1964.

Although ill, Cho continued to pastor the church, and on 15 October 1961 an inaugural service was held in the new auditorium that had been built on the plot of land the church had purchased at Seodaemun.

Also in 1961, Metromedia purchased KMBC-AM – TV in Kansas City, Missouri.

Beginning in 1961, the privately held buildings were purchased by the government and restored to their original appearances.

Under Patterson, United invested in new technologies, such as the DC-4 and the DC-8 a pioneering jet, and purchased Capital Airlines in 1961 to become the United States ' largest airline — a title it would hold for nearly 40 years.

In 1961, Brevard Engineering College purchased the property of the University of Melbourne ( Florida ) which became the main campus in the heart of Melbourne, Florida.

According to television historians Castleman and Podrazik ( 1982 ), the networks were in a bind, though: they had already purchased their fall 1961 programs and had locked in their 1961-62 schedules.

In 1961 he purchased a small house on several acres, near Glen Ellen, California, where the climate was mild and soil could be worked to high fertilility.

Land was purchased in January 1961, and construction of the complex began on May 1.

In 1961, having outgrown the Fountain Street location, the school purchased a home and land at 1110 College Avenue NE.

In 1961, Jack Kent Cooke purchased a 25 percent interest in the Washington Redskins after team owner and founder George Preston Marshall became incapacitated by a stroke, becoming majority owner in 1974 and sole owner in 1985.

* Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881 ( purchased by Taylor by 1937, sold in 1961 to Annenberg, bequest to The Met in 2002 ).

* In 1961, the Post Company purchased the controlling stock interest in Newsweek from the Vincent Astor Foundation.