C.E. Meyer Jr., 89, Dies; as T.W.A. Chief, He Fought a Takeover
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2017-11-25
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C.E. Meyer Jr., 89, Dies; as T.W.A. Chief, He Fought a Takeover
Icahn’s presence is uninvited and undesirable” and that his plan was not “sound or reasonable.”
To fend off Mr. Icahn, Mr. Meyer negotiated a deal under which the airline’s parent company, Trans World Corporation, would instead have sold T. W.A.
C. E. Meyer Jr., a former head of Trans World Airlines who tussled with the corporate raider Carl Icahn
in the mid-1980s in an unsuccessful effort to thwart a takeover, died on Nov. 4 in Norwalk, Conn.
to the Texas Air Corporation, which owned Continental Airlines and New York Air.
Icahn’s presence is uninvited and undesirable” and that his plan was not “sound or reasonable.”
To fend off Mr. Icahn, Mr. Meyer negotiated a deal under which the airline’s parent company, Trans World Corporation, would instead have sold T. W.A.
C. E. Meyer Jr., a former head of Trans World Airlines who tussled with the corporate raider Carl Icahn
in the mid-1980s in an unsuccessful effort to thwart a takeover, died on Nov. 4 in Norwalk, Conn.
to the Texas Air Corporation, which owned Continental Airlines and New York Air.
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