Word: merger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radiator-Standard-Johns-Manville. To American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Mfg. came last month a merger. To the combination last week Johns-Manville Corp. came at least as close as rumors could bring it. Basis for rumors was election of Clarence M. Woolley, potent Radia- tor Chairman, to the Johns-Manville directorate, and the recent election of two "Morgan Men" to Radiator directorates. The Morgan House has lately been prominent in the management of Johns-Manville, having installed the late Theodore Merseles as president and succeeded him ? Uncle Charles A. Eaton represents New Jersey; Cousin William R. Eaton, lover...
Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham-Spaulding. Another merger following a merger was definitely announced in the jewelry field. Last March Manhattan's Black, Starr & Frost and Gorham Co. bought themselves a corporate wedding ring and decided to go down the path of business life together. Last week, however, this matrimonial metaphor became somewhat mixed when Spaulding & Co., Inc., joined the union. A holding company?Gorham, Inc.?was formed to handle the joint affairs of the three companies, each of which continued to operate its own establishment. Said Edmund C. Mayo, head of Gorham, Inc.: "U. S. prosperity has brought about...
McKesson-Robbins-Merrell. Oldest drug house in St. Louis is J. S. Merrell Drug Co., founded in 1845 DY Jacob S. Merrell. Perhaps youngest national drug house is McKesson & Robbins, Inc. (successor to McKesson & Robbins, Inc. of Conn.) formed in 1928 with the merger of 16 drug companies. In March, 1929, McKesson & Robbins, Inc., announced the acquisition of 18 additional companies. Last week J. S. Merrell Drug Co. was sold to McKesson & Robbins, began to operate as a McKesson & Robbins subsidiary. In addition to its U. S. companies, McKesson & Robbins has branches in London, Paris, Montreal, Kobe, Shanghai, Hankow...
...entangled in the tentacles of the U. S. Money Octopus. Rumored negotiations between British G. E. and Associated Electrical Industries were last month denied, but Sir Hugo's unsuccessful attempt to keep British G. E. stock from U. S. holders was said to have resulted in a resumption of merger conferences...
...described as John Barleycorn. Yet, despite the tremendous amount of advertising which alcohol as a beverage has immemorially received, its use for industrial (i. e., non-beverage) purposes has been and remains one of its vitally important functions. True, last week's formation of General Industrial Alcohol Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League or to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Indeed, the U. S. public in general probably took scant interest...