Word: mergers
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...even more striking effect of the merger is that it will link la Générale with another Belgian giant: the Solvay chemical empire, one of the world's biggest family-owned firms. Solvay has long held a controlling interest in the Société Belge de Banque; but the bank's limited deposits of $175 million have proved increasingly inadequate for Solvay's growing needs. Solvay can now tap the vast resources of the banks with which it is merging, and la Générale will strengthen its connection with...
Worried by well-founded rumors of an imminent merger of the World-Telegram and Journal-American that might put 600 Guild members out of work, Murphy also wants a pledge from the Times that it will hire some of his displaced Guildsmen. And he wants management to guarantee that no Guildsman will lose his job except by attrition: by quitting or retiring. The Times has given such a guarantee to the I.T.U., but is willing to give it only to those Guild members hired as full-time employees before March 31, 1965, the date of expiration of the last contract...
Those operations may soon become considerably more complex: the Interstate Commerce Commission is now studying a proposed, long-pending merger that, if it approves, would stitch together the Burlington, the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific into the nation's longest railroad...
...happily confirm S.A.S. profit figures [Sept. 3], we should point out for the record that S.A.S. is not exclusively Swedish and that we have not been a party to the air union discussions among certain other European carriers. S.A.S. is the result of a 20-year-old merger of the interests of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish airlines...
...United Church publicity campaign is intended as much to explain and identify the denomination as to gain converts. Although it is a 1957 merger of the venerable Congregationalists and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, the liberal United Church is still confused by many people with the fundamentalist Churches of Christ. And in Washington, a city of high mobility, many United Church parishes are losing members...