Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fostered among the Houses. Cooperative endeavor is a handsome thing when carefully applied, but the competitive field of Saturday dances is not the place for it. It blunts the initiative and drive of the House Dance Committees to work hard and plan well. The second reason for the merger is, simply that Dunster (and, to a lesser extent, Adams) needs subsidizing because of its smaller size and unfavorable location for visitors. However, Leverett is even smaller than Dunster, and visiting Yale men do not, on the whole, pick their House dances, like their shoe shine parlors, on the basis...
...opera is to survive in this country, a closer merger with musical comedy is required, a panel of three Music instructors decided at a Kirkland House forum last night...
...accomplished, the convention turned to the perennial problem of unity among Lutherans. It dutifully approved two resolutions favoring union, but U.L.C.A.'s president, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, was not very hopeful. While deploring the "American Lutheran habit of living in fractions," he predicted that "prospects for any broad merger ... are likely to be deferred . . . probably for a full generation...
Black Ink. The merger would certainly be good for both lines, since Delta's big load of tourist traffic to Florida comes in the winter, and Northeast has its tourist load in the summer. Said Northeast's Gardner: "If the merger goes through, there'll be a way to make the horses work all the time instead of leaving them in the stable to eat up the profits." Furthermore, Delta, which lost eight of its top men in a 1947 crasb, would have its management bolstered; the new combination would be bossed by Woolman with the help...
...past three years its net has increased fourfold to $815,751; in the first eight months of this year, Northeast netted only $274,000. With both ends of the combination getting more long-haul traffic, Delta and Northeast figure that their total business would jump by 50% under the merger. Together, they would serve 75 cities in 22 states, and hope to become the fifth biggest domestic airline...