Word: bata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until last week did the astounding truth about the obscure Swiss company come out. Actually, Leader, A.G. owned the whole foreign empire of Czechoslovakia's shoe king, Thomas Bata, which was left when he died in an airplane crash in 1932. Leader's entire stock consisted of the 2,000 shares, issued merely to "bearer." Since the bearer had been Muska, he technically controlled Leader...
...Muska, and how did he get the stock? The mystery started to clear up when Thomas Bata Jr. (rhymes with got ya), 34-year-old son of the shoe king, and Jan Bata, a half-brother of Thomas Sr., launched a court fight in New York for control of the empire. Each claimed the 2,000 shares, and demanded, as a starter, an 826-share block which Muska had deposited in a Manhattan bank...