Word: crueler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard Hopson's Associated Gas & Electric (TIME, March 4) but a smaller pyramid in which Hoppy once had a large voting interest. This was the $400,000,000 fantasy called Utilities Power & Light Corp., put together by a Chicago Christian Scientist and Shakespeare devotee, Harley Lyman Clarke. Crueler than death has been the fate of ex-tycoon Clarke: by 1938 his own lawyer officially admitted he was too poor to be sued. Unlike Hopson (who built up good operating utilities on the theory that fat cows give richest milk) Shakespearean Clarke bought and overcapitalized nearly everything...