Word: prospectuses
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...ordinary corporate prospectus, a document prepared for prospective investors in a new stock issue, is perhaps 25% livelier reading than the Manhattan telephone book. One recent prospectus, however, is on the way to becoming a Wall Street bestseller, mostly because it convulses readers with often grim laughter. Brokers and other businessmen have been discussing it in board rooms and over luncheon tables; investment firms have ordered extra copies in quantity...
...author, Burton R. Tauber, 35, took time out last spring from his Wall Street law practice-which often involved preparation of prospectuses-to do some volunteer antiwar lobbying in Washington. He felt that he got nowhere. In order to relieve his frustration, he began dictating a prospectus for "The War in Viet Nam" ("hereinafter referred to as 'the Company' "). He got about one-third of the way through before his secretary realized that it was a parody. No wonder; Tauber has reproduced both the form and the stilted legalese of a genuine prospectus, and the euphemistic circumlocutions peculiar...
...issued by a company that wants to borrow money for a short period (usually 90 days, never longer than nine months) and generally bought by another corporation that has some spare cash to lend. The issuer need not register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, give the buyer a prospectus or back the promise with collateral. His word is his bond...
...weren't supposed to," chuckles Hinckle. "No marketing studies. No direct-mail campaigns. No promotion. No ads. We didn't I even do a dry-run issue." "Yeah," says Zion, "we wanted game conditions." Their capital: $675,000, amazingly raised by a public stock issue whose prospectus reads like an obituary...
Delightful as all these constructions are in the gallery, it's mind-boggling to imagine gigantic versions in a city. The greatest flaw in Exploration is that few visitors get to talk with Gyorgy Kepes. Most leave thinking they've seen a good art show, not a prospectus for urban pageantry...