Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers were inclined to think the rally started through belated recognition of the following fundamentally bullish items: 1) the Lausanne agreement; 2) the cessation of gold withdrawals and foreign buying of U. S. securities; 3) the I. C. C. merger decision; 4) expansion of credit. Certain industries had special reasons to advance. The oils showed improved earnings (see col. 2). Higher commodity prices, if maintained, would help the food and mail order companies. Big loans to railroads would mean orders for the equipment companies. But for the most part the rally was predicated upon hopes. Big Hope...
...held by AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. When AutoStrop and Gillette merged the remaining half interest was acquired. Trophy Blade Co. dissolved. Last week Trophy Towers Sales Corp. brought a $30,000,000 damage suit against Gillette and 19 of its officers and directors. It charged that the AutoStrop-Gillette merger was a conspiracy in restraint of trade, that the dissolution of Trophy Blade Co. was a conspiracy to ruin the business of Trophy Towers Sales Corp...
...Music Merger. A sharp, small Manhattan lawyer named Jacob Scholer was given a difficult task in 1929 by Irving Trust Co. He was to handle the run-down affairs of American Piano Co., petitioned into receivership. So well did he do it that within a year the creditors were paid and plans for a reorganization perfected. A new company, American Piano Corp.. bought the assets of the old company, entered the manufacture of such famed instruments as the Knabe (Metropolitan Opera's favorite). Chickering (family use). Mason & Hamlin (artists) and the Ampico Player Piano...
Eastman Dissent. Such a lax attitude by a majority of the I. C. C. produced a stinging dissent from the merger plan by Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman. As the "radical" member of the Commission, Mr. Eastman delivered a long economic treatise in which he declared...
...action served to stiffen rail bond prices, give rail stocks a gentle fillip. Pennsylvania was reported ready to bolt the merger plan rather than suffer exile from New England. Big Four executives called a meeting for this week to determine their next step. But bets were that the Depression, which had brought Pennsylvania's Atterbury, B. & O.'s Willard, New York Central's Crowley* and C. & O.'s Bernet together, would be over before every passenger coach and freight car in the East bears the name of one of their systems...