The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.

Fulcher also established an association with Justin de Blank, a director at Conran, which blossomed when de Blank left to launch his own upmarket provisions company and restaurant business in 1968.

Unfortunately, when Wyn died 1968 the company was sold to a consortium headed by a bank.

Rediffusion did not use the play ; instead, it was made as one of the first productions of the new ITV company Yorkshire Television, and broadcast posthumously on 26 August 1968.

Returning to the United States in December 1968, Jones was assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where he served as a company commander until May 1970.

In 1968, the company became a corporation.

In 1968, Ridley and Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates ( RSA ), a film and commercial production company.

In 1968, during his sophomore year at MIT, Kurzweil started a company that used a computer program to match high school students with colleges.

From 1947 to 1990 it was the parent company of automobile manufacturer Saab Automobile, and between 1968 and 1995 the company was in a merger with commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania, known as Saab-Scania.

A South African company ( The South Atlantic Trading and Investment Corporation, SATIC ) bought a majority share in Solomon and Company in 1968.

The automobile production company was founded in 1968.

In the 1960s the company diversified, acquiring the Friden calculator company in 1965, Packard Bell Electronics in 1966 and General Precision Equipment Corporation in 1968.

Amstrad was founded in 1968 by Lord Sugar at the age of 21, the name of the original company being AMS Trading ( Amstrad ) Limited, derived from Lord Sugar's initials ( Alan Michael Sugar ).

Chirac, born in the Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire clinic ( Paris V < sup > e </ sup >), is the son of Abel François Chirac ( 1893 – 1968 ), a successful executive for an aircraft company, and Marie-Louise Valette ( 1902 – 1973 ), a housewife.

1968: Giuseppe Bellanca and son August restart the original Bellanca company.

Founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett in 1968 to produce Sesame Street, the company, currently run by President and CEO H. Melvin Ming, has since produced many other shows and a variety of multimedia content.

A major milestone for the company was a television recording of Puccini's Tosca filmed in 1968 at the Adelaide Festival.

In 1968, the parent company changed its name from American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. to American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., formally dropping the Paramount name from the company and all subsidiaries which bore that name.

The film was released in October 1968 by Wiseman's distribution company Zipporah Films.

Alberto ’ s son, Ivano Beggio, took over the helm of the company in 1968 and constructed a 50 cc " motorcycle " with a dozen or so collaborators.

Fox stopped receiving work from DC in 1968, when the comics company refused to give health insurance and other benefits to its older creators.

The company was dissolved in 1968 after the majority of its coal mining and steel mill industrial assets in Industrial Cape Breton were expropriated and nationalized by the federal and provincial governments ( see SYSCO and DEVCO ).

* 1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form the ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.

English Electric LEO Computers Ltd or English Electric Leo Marconi ( EELM ) eventually merged with International Computers and Tabulators ( ICT ) and others to form International Computers Limited ( ICL ) in 1968.

In 1968, Newport News merged with Tenneco Corporation.

In 1968 he also became the only party leader to command an absolute majority in the Knesset, after Mapam and Rafi merged into the Alignment, giving it 63 seats in the 120-seat Knesset.

In 1968 Saab AB merged with the Swedish lorry, bus and heavy-duty diesel engine manufacturer Scania-Vabis, and became Saab-Scania AB.

On October 1, 1968, the governments merged to create the Consolidated City of Jacksonville.

In 1968, when Rafi merged with Mapai to form the Alignment, Ben-Gurion refused to reconcile with his old party.

In 1968, GEC merged with English Electric, incorporating Elliott Brothers, the Marconi Company, Ruston & Hornsby, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry, Willans & Robinson and Dick, Kerr & Co.

The EUB, a German Methodist church, merged with the traditionally English Methodist church to become the United Methodist Church in 1968,

The open era began in 1968 when all five events were merged into the US Open, held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills.

The chairmanship of Eric Mensforth from 1953 – 1968 marked the start of the transition, which was aided by the government when in 1959 – 1961 they forced the merger of the 20 or so aviation firms into three groups, British Aircraft Corporation and Hawker Siddeley Group took over fixed-wing designs, while the helicopter divisions of Bristol, Fairey and Saunders-Roe ( with their hovercraft ) were merged with Westland to form Westland Helicopters in 1961.

In 1968, the Green Bay center was upgraded to a full-fledged four-year institution as the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, while the Kenosha and Racine centers were merged as the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

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The biggest of these mergers occurred in 1968 when the city merged with Summit Hills Heights and St. Pius Heights.

In 1968 the two auction businesses merged and formed the Verenigde Bloemenveilingen Aalsmeer ( United Flower Auctions Aalsmeer ).

The school district ( listed as Cuming County School District # 30 ) merged with Pilger, Nebraska in 1968 to create the present Wisner-Pilger school district, and a new building was constructed, which is still in use today.

In 1968, the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged with the Methodist Church and became known as the United Methodist Church.

Erie merged into the Erie – Lackawanna Railroad ( EL ) in 1960, and the latter ended passenger train service in 1968.

After the NYC and PRR merged to create the ill-fated Penn Central in 1968, rail traffic diminished and the rail infrastructure deteriorated.

In June 1968, Bölkow merged with the Messerschmitt AG to form Messerschmitt-Bölkow, a combination that created West Germany's largest aircraft company, with sales approaching $ 150 million ( 1968 dollars ).

When the Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force were merged in 1968 to form the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Dental Corps and Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps were deactivated and merged with their Naval and Air Force counterparts to form the Dental Branch ( Canadian Forces ) and the Canadian Forces Medical Service of the Canadian Forces Health Services Group ( CF H Svcs Gp ).

As a result of the Transport Act 1968, both Wallasey and Birkenhead Corporations merged under the single control of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive ( MPTE ) on 1 December 1969.

In 1968, UA Records was merged with Liberty Records, along with their many subsidiary labels such as Imperial Records and Dolton Records.