Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bold, downright boss of the third biggest U. S. steel corporation is doing something more than talk about steel's prospects. Now in the midst of a merger with Corrigan, McKinney and Truscon, he is supposed to have plans for further mergers under the hat that almost never leaves his baldish head, except when he sleeps and banquets. Topping all this activity is a recapitalization scheme which is intended to put Republic's finances on a solid steel foundation...
...speak in half-century terms but both the plaintiffs are accustomed to rolling off a round century or more, William Colgate sold his first cake of soap in his little Manhattan shop 128 years ago. For three generations the Colgates ruled Colgate, their hegemony ending with the Palmolive-Peet merger in 1928. As late as 1931 the company was selling $90,000,000 worth of Palmolive, Cashmere Bouquet, Octagon soaps, tooth paste, shaving cream and whatnot. But profits dropped from $8,900,000 to a slight deficit in 1932. That was the signal for the return of the Colgates...
...widest awake of his profession during the period which the experience of the war enlightened as to the possibilities of among other things, the x-ray, of novocaine, and of proper nutrition, Dr. Miner found himself in a position to take commanding lead in the advocacy of a merger. How effective that lead has been is amply demonstrated first in the establishment of the Forsyth Chair of Dental Science in 1926, and now, in the establishment of the University Committee on Research in Dental Medicine...
...third biggest unit in the field, U. S. Can, and with it Oscar Caperton Huffman. Mr. Huffman was not anxious to sell in 1928 but one day he turned up in Mr. Conway's Manhattan office. Mr. Conway began a long speech about all the benefits of a merger but he was cut short...
...Charles Williams Nash has in the past four years paid out in dividends some $17,000,000 more than he earned, yet even now his Treasury holds better than $25,000,000 in cash & governments. Entrenched behind this hoard, Mr. Nash is not expected to listen to any merger terms other than his own. Alvan Macaulay of Packard has about $14,000,000 in cash & governments. Messrs. Nash & Macaulay can still afford to consider their emotions in any scheme involving the loss of corporate identity...