Word: mergered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco Daily Mail. Subsequently he progressed eastward to Manhattan and finally to London, where he gradually branched out into railroading, and finally became associated with the great international firm of Wagon-Lits. The climax of his career came only a few months ago, when, by the stupendous merger (TIME, Feb. 20) Wagon-Lits absorbed the far flung firm of Thomas Cook...
Surviving Baron Dalziel is his famed collaborator in the merger, fat and foppish
President Butler of Columbia, upon the completion of the merger, declared mouthfillingly, that it was "a significant step in the evolution of the organization of higher education". But if most innovations have borne this tag, such a union must be admitted as the really hopeful direction for the dreaded mass education to take. Business developments have sufficiently demonstrated the advantages of the branch system. It universities can have the strong trunk of efficient administration and authoritative lecturers, and still diversity their branches with unit colleges of different types, such as Yale promises and Columbia provides, the fear of Ford factory...
Charles R. Flint (Flint & Co., Manhattan), newly-married merger impresario, sent inspectors to 206 southern yarn mills. On the basis of inspectors' reports, he made overtures to 140 chosen mills, whose owners, announced Flint & Co. last week, offered "close cooperation, feeling that the plan was sound and for the good of the industry." When, as, and if the Flint merger is effected, he will borrow from the public some $50,000,000, for additional working capital, and will set operating as one industrial unit some 1,500,000 spindles. Yarn will be furnished more cheaply than ever before (said...
...directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until the end of the present season. Of the new Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman of the Philharmonic Society, will be chairman. President Harry Harkness Flagler, of the Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. The purposes of this musical merger are, of course, the same as that of Mr. Mackay's other merger of the week-economy of operation. Openly declared last week were these specific reasons: "The establishment of an orchestra with a sound financial backing that will guarantee the continuance...