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...Steamship Corp.). Part of the huge profits he used after the Soviet Revolution to finance the anti-Bolshevist campaigns of "White Russian" General Yudenitch and Admiral Kolchak. Their failures cost him dear. In 1924 his Trans-Atlantic Corp. crashed for a stupendous loss to shareholders in which the Danish Landmansbank alone dropped 200,000,000 kroner ($53,600,000). Incensed, the Danish Government started to probe Plum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Plum the Great | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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