Word: merger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years it would have swelled to $80,000 and be yielding $400 a month in income. It was such an easy way to get rich that messenger boys stopped to read the stock-tickers in offices, chauffeurs drove with ears cocked to catch some word of a merger, and elevator operators were never long out of touch with their brokers...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...
...Midwest Exchange will not choose officers until winter, but nobody doubted that the president would be Jim Day, the man who had first suggested the merger. What had prompted his move was the fact that business on the Chicago Exchange had become flabby; a 30,000-share day looked big, although a dozen years ago 100,000-share days were not unusual. Jim Day reasoned that if the big brokerage houses could get business by having direct connections to their branch offices in scores of cities, stock exchanges in Midwest cities could do the same...
...celebrating its 25th birthday, M-G-M is still Hollywood's biggest studio (31 stages and 3,700 employees), and the only one to have run so long with regular dividends and without merger, bankruptcy or reorganization. For the anniversary year, no special day has been set for a celebration. But last week M-G-M executives kept a date that came close enough for the milestone: they trooped to a birthday luncheon for 64-year-old L. B. Mayer...
...more hopeful was the promise of union with the Disciples of Christ. The Rev. Donald M. West, a Disciples pastor and a guest of the convention, likened the proposed merger to a "romance between our peoples . . . We should not be interested in crowding the situation too much." Willing to give the romance plenty of time, leaders of both Baptists and Disciples are not bringing the subject up for a vote until...