Word: merger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...driving impulse behind the consolidation is to eliminate the sharp competition which of late years has tended to prevent normal profits in the asbestos industry. It has been particularly necessary for the managers of the new merger to come to agreement with certain prominent Canadian-U. S. firms which will not come into the consolidation and where business volume and size make them an important factor in the business. It is understood that with the "Big Three" of these "independent companies-Johns-Manville, Keasbey & Mattison and Philip Carey & Co.-arrangements have been made to prevent their products interfering with...
When O. P. Van Sweringen took the stand last week in the Nickel Plate case before the Interstate Commerce Commission, some interesting facts concerning the past history of that merger came out. Much attention was paid to his assertions relating to his and his brother's profits, which have amounted...
Geographically, the area affected by the merger stretches from the Canadian Border at Niagara to the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans and other Gulfports, and from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River...
...greatest super-power projects in the country is that undertaken by the Electric Bond & Share Co., now approaching fruition. The properties being assembled for this giant merger include parts of the Electric Power & Light Co., American Power & Light, National Power & Light, Southeastern Power & Light, American Gas & Electric, Carolina Power & Light, Lehigh Power Securities, and Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern. All these are either controlled or managed by the Electric Bond & Share Co. or allied interests...
...merger will invade fourteen states: New York, Ohio Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, The Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas. In addition, branch lines from these states will enter still other states. Cities affected by the merger...