Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernat, William Albert, Campbell, Philip Joseph, Downey, James Francis, 3d., Erman, William Thomas Saltiet, Handford, Harvey Allen, Keane, Edward Webb, Kiggen, John Augustian, 3d., Montague, William Pepperall, 3d, Oagoodhy, George Melvin, Paschal, Samuel Scoville, Sabath, Leon David, Sharp, Stephen Burwell, Snow, David Tunison, Thieme, Theodore William, Tucker, Dan Stuart, Turner, John Morton
...investors in Tucker had only themselves to blame; the Securities & Exchange Commission had said practically the same thing when it blew the whistle on Tucker's initial effort to sell stock...
Loss Holders. Though SEC later permitted the stock flotation-it cannot bar anyone from selling stock as long as "full disclosure" is made about the issue-SEC again warned prospective investors that Tucker's public statements had been "grossly misleading and false...
What had happened to the investors' $28 million? Court-appointed trustees were still trying to find out. So far they had found few assets-an engine plant at Syracuse which Tucker had bought, a handful of lathes in the Government-owned plant at Chicago where he had said he would make cars, and some 25 hand-built Tucker autos, some with motors lifted from the cars of other manufacturers. There was only about $100,000 cash on hand...
...usual, Preston Tucker had an explanation for the grand jury's action; it was "the biggest rape of free enterprise ever perpetrated on this country." Soon, however, a jury would have a chance to decide who had been raped...