Word: merger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest chain store in Pennsylvania out-side of A. & P. is America Stores Co. with about 1,743 of its 2,776 units in the State. It has a heavy concentration of stores in & around Philadelphia, its home town. Founded in 1917 as a merger of five old chains, ASCO was ruled until last spring by Samuel Robinson, a chain-store pioneer who started in 1891 with Vice President Robert H. Crawford and joint capital of $1,400. He now divides his time between Bryn Mawr and Pasadena, goes in for philanthropy in a quiet way, showering funds on Philadelphia...
...George hockey team, amateur champions. He got his business start in Massey-Harris (farm implements), shifted to brokerage, setting up his own firm, now H. B. Housser & Co., in 1917. For years he had been a power in Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played a big part in planning the new building to house it. At first he was disturbed by Architect S. H. Maw's modernism, for Broker Housser is rated a Solid Citizen with a wife, daughter and grown son, pride in his golf...
...interest, not one of which can be described as a dazzling success. There is, for instance, a Minor Sports Council, comprised of minor sports captains and managers. It met once this year, once last year, and failed to meet the year before. There is an undergraduate athletic committee, a merger of major and minor sports, organized last fall. The results of its first meeting are expected in a few days. There is an intramural athletic committee, a branch of which was finally stirred into action by the Student Council and sent to Yale to inspect its house sports system...
...time (1924-34) judge of the U. S. Court for China at Shanghai, onetime (1903-05) Assistant U. S. Attorney General; of heart disease; in Honolulu. Famed as Theodore Roosevelt's "chief trust buster," he won the historic Northern Securities Supreme Court decision (1904) which blocked merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads...
...common stocks, sold them all to Sinclair's Rio Grande Oil for a half interest in that company. In an immensely better tactical position to make use of the Richfield holdings than Doherty had been in 1931, Harry Sinclair proceeded to sponsor through Kuhn, Loeb & Co. a merger between Richfield and now prosperous Rio Grande...