Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first program of the combined New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society? By accident or design, Conductor Mengelberg drew a pretty symbol from symphony music, that veritable library of symbols. Some 24 musicians new to the Philharmonic have been placed under Mengelberg's guiding hand as a result of the merger last spring of the New York Philharmonic and the New York Symphony- (TIME, April 2). These two dozen transfers have enlivened the old Philharmonic, helped to give it warmth through Mozart's "Divertimento in D Major"; teased the old Philharmonic through Richard Strauss's Till Eulens...
Cigars. David A. Schulte, now commonly considered the dominant force in United Cigar Stores and its allied businesses (including his own Schulte Retail Stores), is consolidating five cigar manufacturing companies as the Webster-Eisenlohr Co. Cigar making capacity of the merger is 700,000,000 a year. Mr. Schulte will be president, United Cigar's Vice President W. T. Posey chairman. Last week both were elected to correlative positions with the Union Tobacco Co., a tobacco manufacturing subsidiary of the United Cigar-Schulte merchandising-financial group...
...London Malayan Tin Trust Ltd., a merger of 16 Malayan tin producing companies, became active last week by selling £1,249,000 of stock to the public...
...Brothers Pictures Inc. (Vitaphone sound-pictures) a fortnight ago bought control of Stanley Co. of America's 255 cinema theatres. Last week Warner Brothers finished buying control of First National Pictures' 3,000 first run houses everywhere in the country. The deals make a $100,000,000 merger...
...merger is of vital importance to Warner Brothers. They were the pioneers in the production of sound-pictures, which this year have given a new spurt to the U.S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. Whereas their sound-picture rival Fox Film (with Movietone) has steady customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it has been, of strange and invidious exhibitors. With Stanley Co. and First National Pictures it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers-Paramount-Famous-Lasky...