Word: boma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Miss Bonfils and four other executors filed an inventory of her father's estate. It was valued at $8,200,266, mostly in shares of the family's Boma Investment Co. One item of 2,151 capital shares of Colorado-African Expedition Inc. was valued at nothing...
...from the coal business, mining schemes, oil, real estate, Denver's Empress Theatre (burlesque). He used to tell friends that he was worth $60,000,000. Most Denverites think the correct figure was nearer $10,000,000. Bulk of the fortune was tied up in a family corporation, Boma Investment Co. Bonfils, who had visited Africa, named it for the thorn bomas built by natives "to keep beasts out." The Bonfils will, opened last week, left practically the whole estate (amount unspecified) to "The Fred G. Bonfils Foundation for the Advancement of the Welfare of Mankind...