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Major Lawrence Lee Bazley ("Boom'') Angas is a pink & white Britisher with a reputation for making daring predictions which have sometimes come true. He is supposed to have foretold the collapse of rubber in 1926, the rise of gold shares in 1931. He won his nickname with a much-publicized booklet, The Coming American Boom, which heralded his arrival in the U. S. in 1934. Since then he has conducted his business as an investment counselor in Manhattan, writing a market letter for 300 clients and charging as much as $2,500 a year for market advice...
Under the high-powered imprint of Simon & Schuster three yellow-covered pamphlets have appeared in U. S. bookshops in the past two years amid loud fanfare. First was Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas' The Coming American Boom, a breezy contribution to U. S. economics which sold 27,000 copies at $1.50 each. Next was Inflation Ahead by Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton, which sold 71,000 copies, at $1. The third Simon & Schuster pamphlet was Your Income Tax, a slapdash $1 handbook offered agitated taxpayers about a month before the last Federal income tax deadline. That sold...
Last week with two years of recovery behind them, 500 crack U. S. sales executives assembled in Manhattan for a two-day display of enthusiasm. Secretary of Commerce Roper soothed them. Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, British propheteer, titillated them. President Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines belabored them. President Allen Zoll of the International Association of Sales Executives told them: "I am . . . persuaded you will have a Democratic Administration for the next five years- whether you like...
...adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James Harvey Rogers, who lost caste in Washington for criticizing the Administration's silver policies. There was even a self-appointed New Deal economist, Britain's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, prophet of coming U. S. booms...
Last summer another Briton named Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas published a stockmarket forecast: The Coming American Boom. The breezy little pamphleteer sold tens of thousands of copies in the U. S. and gave his name to the short-lived "Angas rally" on the New York Stock Exchange. But the boom did not come. So last week Major Angas brought out The Boom Begins...