Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crackers. Voracious, United Biscuit Co. last year created a $11,500,000 subsidiary, to absorb small middle-western cracker companies, called it United Biscuit Co. of America. Accretions last week: Ontario Biscuit Co. (two plants in Buffalo, one in Pittsburgh); Hekman Biscuit Co. (Grand Rapids); Quality Biscuit Co. (Milwaukee...
Naturally the compromise just sketched in principle involves at every turn thorny factual problems which will have to be threshed out. For one thing the U. S. State Department may impair the whole arrangement by sternly advising U. S. financiers not to absorb the German bonds. For another thing Great Britain is known to be tolerably well pleased by the Reparations status quo; and Chancellor Churchill in particular has displayed reluctance to readjust his precariously balanced budget on the basis of a new arrangement with Germany...
Reports of the conference with Mr. Morgan were to the effect that the world market could not absorb sufficient German bonds to make the lump payment project feasible. In this case the statesmen can do no better than to definitely fix the amount of the annual payments, and the numbers of years during which Germany shall continue to pay them...
Wall Street expects the $50,000,000 Grasselli Chemical Co. to absorb smaller firms. First mentioned is the $7,000,000 Calco Chemical...
...stock market strength was based largely on the story that Packard would absorb it. Packard was also supposed to be seeking Fierce-Arrow. And Auburn was tied to Gardner...