Word: merger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interstate Commerce Commission approved the merger of the Kansas City Southern and the Louisiana & Arkansas railroads last May, made possible an integrated mid-continent system extending from Kansas City to Shreveport, La., and Port Arthur, Texas...
Month ago Lincoln's Parent-Teacher Association held a meeting, and Dr. Del Manzo admitted that a merger was likely. Thereupon up rose Nelson Rockefeller (John D.'s grandson), a Lincoln alumnus whose seven-year-old son Rodman is now in the school, to announce that he was having an investigation of the school made by leading educators. Chief investigator: Dr. Luther H. Gulick, director of the Regents' recent $500,000 survey of New York's public schools...
...August 1938 (after reputedly picking up $625,000 for himself and associates in a merger of Pennsylvania Airlines & Transport Co. and Central Airlines Inc.), Janas & Associates acquired control of Canadian Colonial, made Janas president. With U. S. Foreign Air Mail Contract No. i Sigmund Janas put the operating methods of successful American Airlines (TIME, May 22) to work. His DC-2's were flown by American's pilots, overhauled by American's mechanics, dispatched by American's radio operators...
...Central Europe's biggest financial house. In 1929, with a typical Rothschild gesture, Baron Louis rushed to Vienna from a hunting expedition, took over the insolvent Bodencreditanstalt, great Austrian bank, the failure of which threatened the nation's ruin. Two years later the Creditanstalt, weakened by the merger, itself failed, plunging Europe into financial crisis. Prosecution of Baron Louis was dropped when he "voluntarily" handed over $10,000,000 of his private fortune to the Government and resigned as the bank's president...
...Absent from the Conference were nine ailing bishops, including two Southern die-hards:-Bishops Collins Denny and Warren A. (Coca-Cola family) Candler. A Southern movement to spike the merger with a last-minute court action failed to materialize...