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...followed the pattern of 1937. During the last week of July not one new corporate issue was floated, whereas August-at least for public utility financing-has been Depression II's banner month. Biggest issues of August's first half: Indianapolis Power & Light, $37,500,000; Toledo Edison Co., $36,500,000; New York Steam Corp., $27,982,000; Public Service Electric...
...Union Carbide & Carbon .. 20,452,852 7,931,058 Automobiles General Motors 110,454,266 33,020,019 Chrysler 24,456,609 5,709,599 Packard 3,819,056 d 1,244, 965 Utilities Commonwealth & Southern 8,122,997 5,576,287 Consolidated Edison 7,831,954 9,487,423 Food & Drink General Foods 6,868,823 6,193,578 Standard Brands 5,721,352 4,266,261 National Distillers 2,792,938 2,766,353 Petroleum Union Oil Co. of California. 5,200,000 4,950,000 Tide Water Associated. . . 7,696,701 5,992,705 Shell Union...
...paid for his stock so long as he was running the show. In 1929 the pyramid was shaken by the market crash. That it did not topple then was largely due to the resourcefulness and self-assurance of the cocky, onetime clerk from London, onetime private secretary to Thomas Edison, who went out and built a utility empire. He poured most of his own fortune (once estimated at $100,000,000) into the foundations of his doomed structure...
...EDISON'S OPEN DOOR-Alfred O. Tate -Button...
Worshipful reminiscences by Edison's Canadian-born private secretary, with many after-dinner anecdotes, with illuminating but fragmentary accounts of the attempt by German financiers to capture control of the infant electric industry...