Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metcalf said, however, that "the withdrawal of the cards will have no direct effect on the proposed merger of catalogues...
Last year the Library Committee voted in favor of a merger of the 10-million card Union and Harvard College Catalogues, subject to Corporation approval. While the College Catalogue lists books in Widener, Lamont, and Houghton only, the Union Catalogue includes all University libraries. Since the College Catalogue lists books under title, author, and subject, a merger would add 2,000,000 cards to the Union Catalogue, which has only the author listings...
...merger is approved," Metcalf added, "then the withdrawal of the Library of Congress cards will give us enough space to accommodate the cards to be added from the Harvard College Catalogue...
...merger should be a happy marriage. Capital has routes crisscrossing ten Middle Atlantic and Southeastern states, does a lucrative short-haul business between New York, Chicago and Washington. But it gets comparatively few long-haul passengers because they prefer to take transcontinental lines. With Northwest's cross-country flights to Seattle-and its overseas arms to Honolulu and to Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Formosa and the Philippines-that pattern should change (see map). For its part, Northwest would cash in on Capital's Eastern business, and get a transcontinental route through Chicago, which it has long wanted...
Brass Knuckles. For two tempestuous years, close-cropped Bob Patterson was a central figure in the postwar upheaval in Pentagonia. His behind-the-scenes battle with Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal on unification of the armed forces was a brass-knuckled epic; Patterson wanted a total merger, with all services under a "Generalissimo." He raised a vigorous, though lonely, cry against disarmament in, 1946, helped generate the idea of the North Atlantic Treaty...