Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the first stockmarket crash there have been stories of a "trouble-spot'' in Manhattan banking. When remedies from within fail, a sure ointment for financial and industrial troubles is a merger. Long has it been hoped that this treatment would be used to assuage the Manhattan sorespot. Recently just such a merger was rumored. Remarkable feature was that it involved the unique plan of consolidating four banks (TIME, Nov. 10 ). They were: Manufacturers Trust, with resources of $463,000,000, greatly expanded during recent years; Public National Bank, with resources of $246,000,000, a bank...
...time. Unusual obstacles arose which threatened to block this long-awaited deal. A peculiar situation was known to exist in Bank of the United States. In 1913 this bank was formed in Manhattan's lower East Side. By 1928 it had grown one thousand-fold without a merger. Then, after Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. acquired a large block of its stock, it began to whirl through a period of expansion. Since May 1929 it has lost one-fourth of its deposits; its shares have tumbled from $91 to $13. Recently it has been understood that officials in Washington have...
Some important items in the merger-consolidation era of 1929-30 were...
...Merger...
...second thorn concerns the act of Gillette directors in selling stock to the company at a price far in excess of the present market. A group of minority stockholders sued for damages because of this, threatened to restrain the merger until they were assured that approval of the deal does not waive the directors' liability. The directors claim that all but one have taken back the stock at the same price the company paid, that the single exception is King Camp Gillette, who last week was too ill to be approached on the subject...