Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Depression sucked the Insull empire under, American Gas, doing business next door (in Indiana), was comfortably earning nearly twice as much as its preferred dividends, was investing spare cash in bankers' acceptances. Remarkable is this liquidity and solvency for a system dependent in good part on such feast-&-famine businesses as Timken Roller Bearing (at Canton, Ohio), American Rolling Mill (at Ashland, Ky.), International Nickel (at Huntington, W. Va.), then very much depressed...
...White-Collar Criminality" was the title of a rip-snorting paper by Dr. Edwin Hardin Sutherland of Indiana University, last year's president of the American Sociological Society. He does not agree with many criminologists that crime is caused by poverty-stricken environments or by mental and physiological conditions associated with poverty. He classed as white-collar criminals the "robber barons" of the 19th Century and the Kreugers, Staviskys, Insulls, Whitneys, Coster-Musicas of the 20th, contended that there exists a great welter of less spectacular white-collar rascality-short weights in stores, commercial bribery, willful violations of food...