Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show that the merger was not born of necessity, both companies released their nine months' earnings. On $27,019,958 sales Melville showed a net profit of $1,453,556 (a shade under its profit for all of 1938). McElwain's net of $641,250 was well on the way toward topping its 1938 profit...
Neither of these statesmen can with reason be rated above the other. ... It is the merger of their separate qualities, as well as the alliance of their peoples, which produces the force which in the end may purge civilization of Naziism and preserve some semblance of Democracy to the World...
First editor of the Courier-Journal was Colonel Henry Watterson ("Marse Henry") who helped to found it by a merger in 1868. A bellicose, one-eyed, ex-Confederate cavalry scout with walrus mustaches, Colonel Watterson knew 13 U. S. Presidents, thoroughly approved of only one: Abraham Lincoln. He took keen pleasure in abusing each of the others in turn, whether Democrat or Republican...
...That inventory in April 1938, after the merger, was overstated by about $72,000 because of the presence of items not in existence...
...from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference whether it "is still the Methodist Protestant conference, or is it now a Methodist conference?" Informed that it was the latter, the 16 arose, marched out of the room singing Blessed Assurance, whose chorus goes: This...