Word: mergerer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...workers has been a soap-bubble blown from the soapbox. Indeed, it is the Radical's enemy, the Capitalist, who has recently been unifying, and to an extraordinary degree. Fewer and bigger banks? fewer and bigger department stores? fewer and bigger soaps?it is in an Age of Merger that Industry lives today. The One Big Union may eventually arrive. But the One Big Business appears more definitely...
Consolidation is the current railroad cry. Like vaudeville jugglers, pitching lamps and crockery deftly aloft, are heads of great U. S. rail systems, throwing and catching the little roads upon whom they have merger designs. At times, however, the juggler's eye tires, his hand wavers...
...Loree plan. The northern portion has, of course, long since collapsed. So passes from the rail consolidation stage Juggler Loree, shrewd and potent but faced with too heavy odds. Two of his stage "properties" - the Wabash and the Lehigh Valley roads - are prominent in the present rail-merger performance. Headliners of this program are the Two Van Sweringens, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. To the Interstate Commerce Commis sion came last week a somewhat peculiar request. Briefly, the petitioner - Nickel Plate R. R. - asked permission to acquire stock control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie road. Oddity of the request...
...special committee of the United States Senate. Senator Walsh revealed that his attention was drawn to the subject by the writings of Professor William Z. Ripley, of Harvard University, in his book, "Main Street and Wall Street." Professor Ripley had paid considerable attention to public utilities, the merger of power companies, the pyramiding of holding companies and their financial practices, and the growth of interstate power; and raised the question whether the time had not come for Federal regulation of the electrical industry, so rapidly assuming an interstate character...
...this accessory industry came last week its first great merger. Known as the Bendix Aviation Corp., the new company will be 25% controlled by General Motors...