Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stately, handsome John A. Hastings, promotive vanguard of the great bonanza. A onetime New York State Senator (at 22, the youngest in the Legislature's history), an oldtime crony of James J. Walker, unsuccessful candidate (although Father Coughlin backed him) for U. S. Representative in 1936, Hastings reportedly sought concessions for West Coast fishing, railroads, a trans-Isthmus pipeline. Mexican politicos thought him a U. S. Senator...
...Harry Oakes, Maine-born, Bowdoin-bred mining tycoon (Canadian gold) now living in Nassau, where income taxes are 5%. Unlike his colleagues, most of whom are longer on bullishness than on bullion, Sir Harry is so fabulously wealthy that he might well finance the bulk of the bonanza...
...respectable basis, Mexico's movie industry counts a dozen legitimate producers in place of the 38 operating during the bonanza days. Leading the list is Grovas-Oro Films, bossed by Jesus Grovas, a veteran with 25 years' experience in the Paramount and M. G. M. distributing offices in Mexico City. Modest, unassuming Grovas is an expert on foreign distribution. His production specialist is a young lawyer, Juan Bustillo Oro, noted for his knack of sensing the current appetite of Latin-American cinemaudiences. Grovas-Oro's En Tiempos de Don Porfirio (In the Times of Diaz) broke...
...Odlum, Atlas' largest holder (roughly 200,000 shares of common, 200,000 warrants), a boom in Curtiss-Wright stock to these levels would be bonanza. To him also it means that his new $25,000,000 investment company will have only common stock, no preferred dividends to worry about in his speculative business. And it means that his clean capital structure may attract new speculative money, if he ever wants it. Even with its reduced capital Odlum's new Atlas, no longer an investment trust, now a new-fangled investment finance company, will tower over Wall Street...