Word: merger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President came Howard Elliott, Chairman of the Board of the Northern Pacific R. R., Hale Holden, President, and Charles E. Perkins, General Manager, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. They discussed the proposed merger between the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads, a question which the Interstate Commerce Commission will later decide...
Last month's entertainment merger seemed a large one-Pathe, Keith, Orpheum and the Cecil B. DeMille interests (TIME, May 2). Last week's announcement dwarfed it. With the Keith-Orpheum chain of 97 theatres will now be merged the B. S. Moss nationwide organization. To that combination will then be added the huge Stanley Co. Result: more than 600 cinema and vaudeville houses under unified control, a $250,000,000 entertainment trust supplying all its own celluloid features from the merged studios of First National, Pathe and Director DeMille, with the Producer's Distributing Corp...
...Theological Seminary moderator, onetime Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado vice moderator, President Calvin Coolidge honorary moderator (for the third time); organized the Congregationalists Home Board to perpetrate home missions, church building, Sunday school extension, educational and publishing work theretofore handled by separate boards; heard a committee recommend a merger of Congregationalists with Universalists, Christians, United Brethern, Brethern and Methodist Protestants...
...reformation came. Drake got a new charter and the approval of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Its endowment grew into six and later seven figures. It is striving to become as well-known for scholarship as for its annual relay races. Its latest merger is a bid for efficiency, not monopoly...
Then President Erskine teased his stockholders by telling them to await "an announcement which will be extremely interesting." Some shareholders thought he hinted at a merger of Studebaker with other motor car companies, for the entire industry is alive with rumors of mergers and new alignments. But more probably, in the case of this old family corporation, the "interesting announcement" will be price reductions, similar to the price reductions made last week by Pierce-Arrow...