Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bond & Share Family. Reports said that potent Electric Bond & Share Co., which lately voted shareholders rights to subscribe to some $66,000,000 of new stock, planned to form a billion-dollar company to hold stocks of Electric Power & Light, National Power & Light, American Power & Light, American & Foreign Power, American Superpower, American & Foreign Power, though a Bond & Share company, has little community of interest with the other rumorees, carries on only abroad. Superpower, a Bonbright & Co., child, does extraordinarily well as it is. The other three rumorees, however, are direct, lineal descendants in the Bond & Share genealogy of holding companies...
...That it had acquired more than 90% of the common stock of Commonwealth Power Corp., Penn-Ohio Edison and Southeastern Power & Light, operating in eleven States, with total assets of over a billion dollars...
...offer to exchange its stock for that of Columbus Electric & Power Co. of Georgia and Alabama. (Columbus stock, on the New York curb, jumped from 60 to 120 last month...
...could still "sack the lot" because, hale at 82, he was retaining his majority of Guardian stock, and his office of "governing director" (publisher). Nor was the editorship passing far from his touch. To fill his shoes Editor Scott had trained up his son, Edward Taylor Scott, now 45, a quiet, Oxford-educated economist...
...Wabash plan did not conflict with Pennsylvania, which has a 49% stock interest in the Wabash line. By further scrambling an already chaotic jumble of claims and counterclaims, it made more difficult any disturbance of the present situation?a situation with which Pennsylvania Railroad, potent and powerful, seems not ill pleased...