Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another result: Trans World Airlines, which long had battled the merger, finally gave up, mollified by CAB permission to fly to London and Frankfurt. Said T.W.A. Chairman Warren Lee Pierson: "The court has spoken. T.W.A. intends to say it with service...
Broken Arrow (20th Century-Fox] makes an effective merger of the old western and the new problem picture. Pleading the cause of the U.S. Indian, whom Hollywood has been kicking around for years, the movie has plenty of gunplay, hoofbeats and crisply Technicolored vistas to keep it from getting preachy...
...House on the proposed sale of American Overseas Airlines to Pan American World Airways. Last week Harry Truman sent him a brief, cool note of "best wishes" and accepted his resignation. Some thought that this was a hint that the President was ready to give Pan Am's merger the go-ahead...
...also want to be the U.S. "chosen instrument" for worldwide cable communications. They argue that Western Union should get rid of its cable business, which was a condition to the Postal Telegraph merger. Western Union contends that it needs the overseas revenue, plus a clear field in the U.S. telegram business, before it can be sure of a profitable living in competition with its remaining rivals, the airmail letter and the telephone...
More & more U.S. Protestants are in favor of merging all Protestant denominations into a single church, a Gallup poll indicated last week. Of Protestants polled, 50% favored merger, as opposed to only 40% in 1937. But only 28% of Protestants believed that their own church would favor merger; 45% were certain that their own church would object...