Word: mergered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Dairy Products Co., organized as a merger of previously separate dairy concerns in 1923, recently acquired the Sheffield Farms, Inc.-leading milk producer. National Dairy Products now have an annual sales volume of about $100,000,000, which compares with $130,000,000 for National Biscuit and $100,000,000 for the Continental Baking Corporation...
...William Roscoe Thayer, Robert Bacon, and Owen Wister, it had its narrowest escape from extinction in 1882, nine years after its birth. Financially on the rocks, the CRIMSON was all but ready to surrender and be absorbed by its rival; only by a margin of one vote was the merger project defeated...
...less informal manner on subjects in which they have real interest and definite opinions without the necessity for extended research. The present organization of the Debating Union is offered to meet this need. But there are obstacles. The University offers no housing facilities or no financial support, and a merger with the Harvard Union would deprive the Debating Union of its independence and exclude many from the debates. Other colleges have provided quarters for an organization of this kind. Cannot Harvard make some provision for this activity...
...reasons? Innumerable, interlocked and complicated; partly the successful conclusion of the Locarno Conference (see Page 11), partly the result of extraordinary rumors of an enormous merger in the automobile industry; partly a mechanical culmination of the last feverish weeks-the interest of J. P. Morgan & Co. in U. S. Steel and General Motors; the eagerness of the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker for over half the stocks listed by the Exchange...
Another instance was the reopening last week of hearings on the proposed Nickel Plate merger, after a recess of only a month. It had been hoped that a speedy conclusion might be reached, and a compromise made between the Van Sweringens and the minority stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio. Instead the minority stockholders promptly renewed their opposition with the new hearing. The most optimistic estimate now made for the final decision for or against the merger is that the Commission will make up its mind...