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Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith , 1860-1929, American inventor, b. Buffalo, N.Y. After graduating from Columbia Univ. (B.S., 1879), he worked on the U.S. Census of 1880. Intrigued by the problem of tabulating vast amounts of data, he developed over the next several years a card that could be represent data through...
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merger
merger in corporate business, fusion of two or more corporations by the transfer of all property to a single corporation. The remaining corporation continues in existence, having absorbed the other(s). Mergers may be of various types: A vertical merger integrates different types of businesses tha...
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United Church of Christ
United Church of Christ American Protestant denomination formed in 1957 by a merger of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches (see Congregationalism ) and the Evangelical and Reformed Church . The constitution for the new body was adopted in July, 1961, thus completing the union...
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Church of South India
Church of South India Indian Protestant church, formed in 1947 by the merger of Anglican dioceses in India, Myanmar, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka); the Methodist Church of South India; and the South India United Church, which itself was formed in 1908 by a union of Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and D...
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Walter Philip Reuther
Walter Philip Reuther , 1907-70, American labor leader, b. Wheeling, W.Va. A tool- and diemaker, he became shop foreman in a Detroit automobile plant, meanwhile completing his high school work and attending college. Discharged because of his union activities, he and his brother Victor spent some yea...
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University of Detroit Mercy
University of Detroit Mercy at Detroit; coeducational; Jesuit; est. 1877 as a college, inc. 1881, became a university 1911. The present school was formed with the 1990 merger of the Univ. of Detroit and Mercy College (1941).
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University of Prince Edward Island
University of Prince Edward Island at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; founded 1969 with the merger of Prince of Wales College (est. 1834) and St. Dunstan's Univ. (est. 1855). It has faculties of arts, sciences, business administration, education, ...
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Mellon Foundation
Mellon Foundation officially the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, philanthropic trust formed (1969) through the merger of the Avalon Foundation (est. 1940 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce) and the Old Dominion Foundation (est. 1941 by Paul Mellon). Prior to the merger, the Avalon Foundation distributed funds to h...
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Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). The university includes facilities for nuclear, computer, and educational research. The uni...
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Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University at Cleveland; coeducational; est. 1967 through the merger of the Case Institute of Technology (chartered 1880, opened 1881) and Western Reserve Univ. (chartered and opened 1826). Case Western Reserve is made up of a liberal arts college, a school of graduate studies,...
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