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...genius when it comes to a gasoline motor, Multi-millionaire Kettering is No. 3 man in the world's largest automobile concern, runs GM's great research laboratories. From last week's testimony, however, it soon became clear that he is a better inventor than investor. To Mr. Kettering, in the spring of 1930, went two hale fellows, Ralph W. Simonds.of Baker, Simonds & Co. and Luther D. Thomas of Detroit's Fidelity Trust. They and their firms were sponsoring an investment trust called Yosemite Holding Corp. On their recommendation "Boss" Kettering bought through them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Loser | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...thus withdrawn, that Messrs, Simonds & Thomas went into the open market to buy the other 10,000, thereby running up the price and improving their waterlogged position; that the stock for which he paid $6.50 per share was sold to them by the company for only $5.95. Inventor Kettering sputtered a shocked: "No!" There were some other things which Mr. Kettering evidently did not know about a venture into which he had sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Loser | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Loser | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...Inventor: No, I do not, and I have tried to find out how it happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Loser | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...Inventor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Loser | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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