Word: merger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides, Nasser offers another form of membership in his club, not so binding as Syria's merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic, which has not worked well, as even Nasser admits. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and eventually Jordan might be persuaded to join a looser association called the United Arab States, which now links the U.A.R. with the feudal Imam of Yemen, a ruler whose primitivism makes the sheiks of Saudi Arabia appear enlightened democrats by comparison.* By joining the U.A.S., other Arab rulers might hope to keep some internal autonomy and some hold on their fabulous...
WEST COAST BANK MERGER will unite the California Bank and First Western Bank & Trust Co., satellite of huge Firstamerica Corp., to form giant California Bank, with $2.25 billion in resources, 165 branches...
...AIRLINE MERGER may be coming between Northeast (six-month loss: $3,283,533) and Capital (six-month loss: $728,611), would make economic sense by welding basically regional operators into combine of long-haul plus short-haul routes...
...forced national and classified advertisers to take space in both papers, or neither. The Times-Picayune announced that, just to keep competition alive, it would resell the Item to any bidder willing to match the $3,400,000 price within 60 days. But the Item was clearly marked for merger with the States, and New Orleans was fated to join the ranks of the monopoly-ownership newspaper cities...
...zaibatsu grow bigger almost by the week. Fortnight ago Mitsui Bank President Kiichiro Sato, 65, a nimble-witted financial expert who has spent his entire life working for the Mitsui cause, engineered the merger of two of the biggest offshoots of Mitsui's prewar trading division in a major deal that will form Japan's largest single trading company, with assets of some $500 million. "The occupation did not kill the zaibatsu," says Economics Professor Ryosei Kobayashi of Tokyo's Senshu University. "It just reorganized them...