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PRAY TO THE EARTH-Evelyn Eaton-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). A proper picaresque novel, as concentrated as a dried prune, about a rapscallion French peasant...
...assets in 1936 amounted to almost $385,000,000, has gradually accumulated properties and organized new companies till it is the customary public utilities tangle of holding companies, operating companies, companies that are not purely one nor the other, and indiscriminate holdings ranging from Manhattan real estate to California prune orchards. After it is simplified, it will keep no less than 108 non-utilities, including 89 waterworks companies which are not defined as utilities by the act. But it will have only three operating and holding utility subsidiaries-West Penn Power Co., Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. and Potomac...
...tell American Water Works to get rid of its prune orchards. But if it wished to, said the Commissioners, it could take "a reasonable period of time" to sell them-an obvious effort to convince other utilities that if they become a little more sociable SEC is perfectly willing to make friends...
Between 1930 and 1933 Floyd Odium gobbled up 22 investment trusts, pushed his long arm into such diversified businesses as prune ranching in California and the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan. These he acquired in his prime pursuit of shaky investment companies at less than their asset value. Then by careful merging and liquidating he would ride them through to recovery at a profit. But though Atlas' profits have been good, up to last week its 36,700 common stockholders had never received a cent in dividends. Therefore it was news indeed when Mr. Odium and his four directors...
...them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...