Word: merger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international nickel company-is the chemical process for separating the copper from the nickel. Two small U. S. companies had the process, but very little nickel; Canada had plenty of nickel but no process. In 1902 Charles Schwab, now Bethlehem Steel's board chairman, helped to promote a merger of the U. S. and Canadian companies. In 1929 the major competitive mine in the Sudbury area was absorbed, and International Nickel reached its present form...
President Ivey was Virginia-Carolina's counsel in 1932, when internal troubles over a proposed merger with an Armour & Co. fertilizing subsidiary brought Mr. Kemp to the fore and began Virginia-Carolina's warfare. A tightlipped, poker-faced Baptist, Mr. Ivey is 50, a Georgia farm-boy with a law degree from Columbia University who was "reared between the plough-handles." 1886-1936 "At the annual meeting in 1886, Mr. Coolidge, then Treasurer, called your attention to the trend of [the cotton] industry southward. In 1889, 1891, 1896 and 1897 he stressed the same idea, pointing...
...been unsuccessful in business only in his two attempts to retire from it. Born in Austria, arriving in the U. S. at 4, he grew up to write sports for a Chicago newspaper, manage prizefighters, pick losers at racetracks, lose his job when his paper went into a merger. Then he became an automobile salesman with his sporting friends his best customers. He entered the taxicab business when he turned four old trade-ins into hacks. Cabstands were located at hotels, and cabmen paid hotel-operators large concessions. Mr. Hertz took his cabs away from the hotels, cruised them around...
...Year in Tom Mercer Girdler. who last September absorbed Corrigan. McKinney and Truscon Steel, increased Republic's yearly capacity to 6,000,000 tons. Mr. Girdler got himself a Cleveland steel plant and large ore reserves, but neither of his acquisitions has been making any money and the merger involved a large increase in Republic capitalization. But Republic made $3,264,000 in nine months of 1935 against a 1934 loss of $2,193,000 and Mr. Girdler appears to have expanded at just the time when steel mills are becoming assets instead of liabilities...
National Steel, only major outfit to make money throughout Depression, again ranked as No. 1 earner with a nine-month profit of $8,603,000, nearly doubling the earnings of the 1934 period. With business concentrated on steel's most profitable items, National is a boom-time merger that Depression has not withered...