Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, calling merger fights "a form of mid-20th century corporate warfare," SEC Chairman Manuel Cohen said: "The stakes are very high. Giant companies are threatened by small companies that issue paper-sometimes cynically referred to as 'funny paper'-as the incentive for the takeover...
This morning's edition of the New York 'Times' reports that Saturday's meeting of the Radcliffe Trustees will consider a full merger with Harvard. Proponents of the merger hope that the meeting will produce a specific proposal for a merger, the 'Times' says...
Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, told the CRIMSON last night that the primary purpose of the meeting is to discuss the desirability of co-ed living. Mrs. Bunting said she knew of no plans to present specific merger proposals at the meeting...
...amendments that run for 425 pages. Johnson Administration economists, testifying in Senate hearings last summer, argued that the ICC was fated to be "a dead hand on industry" and ought to be abolished. Another criticism came last month from the Department of Transportation, which, in a study of rail-merger patterns, scolded the commission for paying scant attention to broad economic questions and for rubber-stamping in "a rather random manner" individual mergers as they come along...
Rebuffed in merger feelers toward Saint-Gobain, BSN quietly bought 10% of its competitor's 11.5 million shares. Then, in December, Riboud sprang his frontal attack. Backed by three big banking houses, BSN offered to exchange convertible debentures with a face value of $46 for Saint-Gobain common stock, then selling for $29. Such tactics, common in the U.S. and Great Britain, had never before been tried in France. Much to BSN's surprise, Saint-Gobain did not take long to fight back strongly...