* John Stuart ( CEO ) ( 1877 – 1969 ), CEO of the Quaker Oats Company

From 1969 to 1977, Kellogg's acquired various small businesses including Salad Foods, Fearn International, Mrs. Smith's Pies, Eggo, and Pure Packed Foods ; however, it was later criticized for not diversifying further like General Mills and Quaker Oats were.

It was closed in 1969 and sold, but seven adjacent hectares of farmland were retained as the site of the Friends Educational Settlement, nicknamed " Quaker Acres ".

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

Originating in Seattle, Washington, as the Seattle Pilots, the club played for one season in 1969 before being acquired in bankruptcy court by current MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and then moved to Milwaukee.

In September 1969, Biafra acquired four ex-Armee de l ' Air North American T-6Gs, which were flown successfully to Biafra the following month, with another aircraft lost on the ferry flight.

The keystone of those teams was acquired when the Flyers took a chance on a 19-year-old diabetic from Flin Flon, Manitoba, named Bobby Clarke with their second draft pick, 17th overall, in the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft.

In 1968, the Lakers acquired four time MVP Wilt Chamberlain to play center, and after losing in the Finals in 1969 and 1970, they won their sixth NBA title — and first in Los Angeles — in 1972, led by new head coach Bill Sharman.

In 1969, Indian and Northern Affairs acquired from the reluctant Municipality of Schefferville, a marshy, site north of the town centre and adjacent to Lake.

The ranch was acquired on a long-term lease from the Bureau of Land Management in 1969.

The land that would become Long Key State Park was acquired between 1961 and 1973 ; the park opened on October 1, 1969.

After his release from the Sundance Jail in 1888, Harry Longabaugh acquired the moniker the Sundance Kid, which entered the popular imagination in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which won several Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay.

Her husband Leonard Woolf continued to live there until his death in 1969, and after a few more residents had passed through, it was bought by the University of Sussex, before being acquired and restored by the National Trust.

In July 1969, Coney Island was sold to the Taft Broadcasting Company, a business interested in promoting its recently acquired Hanna-Barbera division, for $ 6. 5 million USD.

A further improvement in comfort and travel times was achieved when Lloyd Aéreo acquired its first jet aircraft ( of the Boeing 727 type ) in 1969, allowing for the inauguration of flights to Central America and the United States, as well as long-haul services to Madrid in Spain.

Tarnopol acquired the rest of Brunswick from Decca in 1969 to settle disputes with Decca management.

From 1969 to 1970 she ( like Casals before her ) played on a Francesco Goffriller cello, and in 1970 acquired a modern instrument from the Philadelphia violin maker Sergio Peresson.

The various organization which acquired the rights to distribute WQM and WAIFM include: 1961-69 Economics Research Unit ( University of Pennsylvania ) distributes the Wharton Quarterly Model ; 1969 University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees ( WEFA Inc is incorporated and takes over distribution of the Wharton Quarterly Model ); 1969 WEFA Inc begins distribution of the Wharton Annual and Industry Forecasting Model ; 1980 Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. acquires WEFA Inc ; 1983 Cie International de Services en Informatique acquires WEFA Inc ; 1986 WEF Associates AG acquires WEFA Inc ; 1987 WEF Associates AG acquires Chase Econometrics, WEFA Inc becomes WEFA-CEIS ; 1994 Information Partners ( Bain Capital ) acquires WEFA-CEIS ; 1997 Primark Corporation acquires WEFA-CEIS ; 2000 The Thomson Corporation acquires Primark Corporation ; 2001 Global Insight acquires WEFA-CEIS from The Thomson Corporation and merges it with DRI ; 2008 IHS Inc. acquires Global Insight.

In May 1969, Hamburger Flugzeugbau was acquired by Messerschmitt-Bölkow.

* 1969: Horlicks acquired by the Beecham Group.

The Sun was acquired in October 1969 from International Publishing Corporation.

7, built in 1888, has been altered over the years including by Dassault's friend, architect Georges Hennequin ( 1893 — 1969 ), when Dassault acquired the buildings in July 1952.

In 1969, when the Tisch brothers acquired the company, it became known as " Loews ".

From 1966 to 1969, the company acquired and upgraded their network to fill all of Quebec.

Safmarine acquired a 50 % stake in Suidwes in 1969, eventually boosting its participation to 85 %.

1911 ), which SBI acquired in 1969, together with its 28 branches.

GPG needed to move into the US and UK markets, and did so by a process of both formation and acquisition: Polydor Records established its American operations in 1969, Mercury Record Productions ( US ) was acquired in 1972 from sister company North American Philips Corp., RSO ( UK ) in 1967, MGM Records and Verve ( US ) in 1972, Casablanca ( US ) in 1977, Pickwick in 1978, and Decca ( UK ) in 1980 ( the latter acquisition basically brought PolyGram full circle, see the HDD section above ).

British experimental composers use the toy piano frequently, especially the Promenade Theatre Orchestra ( 1969 – 73 ), a quartet of composer / performers ( members included John White, Alec Hill, Hugh Shrapnel, and Christopher Hobbs ), whose central instrumentation consisted of four matched French Michelsonne toy pianos and Hohner reed organs.

Their music was, broadly, repetitive minimalism, often of great technical difficulty ( Hobbs's Working Notes ( 1969 ) for four toy pianos ), great dynamic power ( Shrapnel's 4 Toy Pianos ( 1971 )), were used in various combinations with reed organs, and used compositional techniques that were either specific to British experimentalism ( such as systems music, invented by John White ), or borrowed from other disciplines ( such as Alec Hill's use of change ringing systems ).

Tonka produced a resin toy version of the 1968-69 model in roughly 1 / 24 scale as part of an auto transporter set ; the front end of that toy arguably resembles the 1969 model more closely.

Introduced by Louis Marx and Company in 1969, the Big Wheel was a very popular toy in the 1970s in the United States, partly because of its low cost and partly because consumer groups said it was a safer alternative to the traditional tricycle or bicycle.

According to a 2004 article in Puremusic. com by Talley, a December 1969 British tour was cancelled by the band after arriving in London to discover that instead of respecting the rider agreement, the local promoter insisted they play the tour with the opening reggae act's toy drums, public address system amplifiers ( instead of proper guitar amplifiers ), and a keyboard with a broken speaker.

* In a series of strips from January 1969, Lucy threw the piano into a tree, which was later discovered to be none other than a dreaded Kite-Eating Tree, which evidently didn't distinguish between kites and toy pianos.

Stickle Bricks are a construction toy primarily intended for toddlers invented by Denys Fisher in 1969.

Philiform was a construction toy similar to Lego, made by Philips from 1969 until 1972.

Founded in 1969 after the bankruptcy of pioneering toy manufacturer Marusan, the company was also known simply as Bull by many people as their logo of a bull was stamped on the bottoms of the feet of many of its toys.

In 1967 L ' Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée was renamed Bombardier Limited and on January 23, 1969, the company went public, listing on the Montreal and Toronto stock exchanges.

The Data General Nova was a popular 16-bit minicomputer built by the American company Data General starting in 1969.

Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he had a significant financial stake in her future: as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of Owepar, the publishing company Parton had founded with Bill Owens.

The ( green painted ) country buses and Green Line Coaches had been passed in 1969 to a new company, London Country Bus Services, which in 1970 became part of the National Bus Company.

* Charles Edison ( 1890 – 1969 ), who took over the company upon his father's death and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey.

Warner Brothers Cartoons continued, with intermittent interruptions, until 1969 when it was dissolved when the parent company ceased film short production entirely.

In 1969, Chief Scientist at Xerox Jack Goldman approached George Pake, a physicist specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance and provost of Washington University, about starting a second research center for the company.

* February 19 – Poseidon bubble: shares in Australian nickel mining company Poseidon NL, which stood at $ 0. 80 in September 1969, peak at around $ 280 before the speculative bubble bursts.

In 1969, she formed her own company, Twyla Tharp Dance.

The franchise company was started in 1969 as National Fast Food Corp. National Fast Food's principals at the time included S. Robert Davis, a real estate developer who built and leased several Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken properties, his friend Dave Thomas, who sold his Colonel Sanders franchises back to that company for $ 3, 000, 000 and went on to found Wendy's, and L. S. Hartzog, who at the time ran a chain of bakeries selling biscuits to Colonel Sanders franchisees nationally.

In 1969, the word " Glass " was deleted from the corporation's name ; the company had made an evolution into an organization that was no longer just a " glass " company.

In 1969, Fokker agreed to an alliance with Bremen-based Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke under control of a transnational holding company.

The company was known as Cadbury Schweppes plc from 1969 – 2008 until its demerger, in which its global confectionery business was separated from its US beverage unit ( now called " Dr Pepper Snapple Group ").

Cadbury merged with drinks company Schweppes to form Cadbury Schweppes in 1969.

The first case of karōshi was reported in 1969 with the death from a stroke of a 29-year-old male worker in the shipping department of Japan's largest newspaper company.

Following the termination of the Capitol contract in 1969, the band's new contract with Reprise Records ( brokered by Van Dyke Parks, then employed as a multimedia executive at the company ) stipulated Brian Wilson's proactive involvement with the band in all albums — a factor that would become hugely problematic for the band in the years to come.

In another story published in 2002, the New York Times reported that during 1969 alone Monsanto had dumped 45 tons of PCBs into Snow Creek, a feeder for Choccolocco Creek which supplies much of the area's drinking water and that the company buried millions of pounds of PCB in open-pit landfills located on hillsides above the plant and surrounding neighborhoods.

Acxiom Corporation, a global interactive marketing services company that uses consumer data, analytics, information technology, data integration, and consulting solutions to help companies conduct direct marketing programs, was founded in 1969 in Conway and though it has its corporate headquarters in Little Rock, AR, a large presence in Conway still remains.

However, the aircraft that would propel the small company into a huge corporation was the Model 18 " Twin Beech ", of which thousands were built from 1937 to 1969.

Established in 1969 by engineers, the company designs and builds custom test equipment for the aerospace, industrial and alternative energy industries.

Carl and his two sons would move to Phoenix, Arizona in 1966, and found Common Market, the company would become Swift Transportation in 1969.

Despite his departure from the " White Album " sessions, Emerick remained on good terms with the Beatles, particularly Paul McCartney, who invited Emerick to quit EMI and come work for their company, Apple Corps Ltd., in 1969.

The company was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm.