Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MOP. Through J. P. Morgan & Co. and Guaranty Trust Co. last week Alleghany Corp.. holding company controlled by the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland, offered a $25,000,000 bond and a $12,500,000 preferred stock issue. Securing the issue were $7,000,000 Missouri Pacific convertible bonds, 60,000 shares of Missouri Pacific convertible preferred stock, 100,000 shares of Missouri Pacific common stock (MOP...
Inquisitive people, wondering why Alleghany Corp. has so large an interest in MOP, were told that the Van Sweringen:, are estimated to have one-third control of the road. Suddenly the realization dawned that the Van Sweringens possess the nucleus of the never-achieved ambition of all of the many U. S. railroad builders; a transcontinental system...
...consolidation plan, MOP will unite with Denver & Rio Grande and Western Pacific. This will afford a complete road from St. Louis to the West Coast. In the East, the Van Sweringens could easily make any of several connections through the various roads they control...
...opposed to Prohibition because I consider that the last ten years has shown that it is absolutely impossible to enforce. It has led to more crime, more corruption, more hypocrisy than any other law. . . . People say if you mop up the wet spots in cities the thing is done. I have never seen more vicious drinking in my life than I have seen in Indiana and in South Carolina. I have never gone anywhere in the country where the liquor law was observed...