Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another indication of increasing cordiality came this year in the area of undergraduate life. Harvard's Dean Watson and Radcliffe's Dean Lacey, recognizing that men and women are working together in extracurricular activities, suggested that the time may be ripe to discuss a formal merger of undergraduate organizations...
...role of women in the Harvard community is so amorphous because, like Topsy, it "jus' growed." With new signs this year of closer relations between Harvard and Radcliffe, many have taken to speculating just how far this "merger" tendency may proceed...
...traditionalists argue that a Radcliffe degree is a mark of distinction and that a merger with Harvard might not prove a financial saving in the long...
Death Valley Days. U.S. Borax is only a corporate infant-formed last year by the merger of oldtimers Pacific Coast Borax Co. and U.S. Potash Co. But it has close to a natural monopoly, holds 63% of the free world's deposits, including the only big deposit of sodium borate ore (at Boron), the cheapest and easiest type of the mineral to mine and process. The company's ancestry is the story of borax mining in the U.S. The discovery of borax in a California hot spring in 1856 set off feverish prospecting and mining that eventually made...
...took over the Pacific Coast Borax division, became a U.S. citizen. In 1956 Borax (Holdings) Ltd. decided to make Pacific Coast Borax a U.S. company to gain the advantages of U.S. businesses, e.g.,, depletion allowances, defense contracts. They formed Consolidated Borax, Inc., which engineered last year's merger, owns 74¼% of U.S. Borax & Chemical Corp...