Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faculty members reported, however, this action was merely delaying the inevitable. The merger cannot go through, they said, because the opponents of the plan are too numerous...
Original plans called for the merging of the two catalogues to begin this summer following Buck's and the Corporation's approval. But over 50 professors signed a petition opposing the merger which the Faculty Library Committee had passed by a narrow vote. Two lengthy faculty meetings brought no solution and increased the bitterness on the subject...
...corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo. Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co. of Covington, Ky., one of the oldest and biggest U.S. X-ray equipment manufacturers...
Opponents of the merger say that Metcalf has underestimated the cost and overestimated the saving involved. Others say that the downstairs catalogue room is a far less picturesque place in which to look up books than the ornately-pillared upstairs catalogue room...
...chaos, however, one thing is sure. The Metcalf merger will be a great blow to the nation's security in the event of a general mobilization. Harvard's scholars will grow soft if deprived, of their daily interfloor chugging to cross-check catalogue references...