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...awkward as a young colt: a nostalgic account of how everything turns out all right for virtually everyone in a little New England town in the 1920s...
Other factors also made U. P. & L. the perfect SEC choice. Promoter Harley Clarke threw together this "scatteration" of properties in 588 communities in 24 States and Canada in the 1920s, then floated three stock issues and two bond issues. By 1935, when U. P. & L. debentures sold as low as 20¼? on the dollar, Floyd Odium's big investment trust. Atlas Corp., bought up enough of them to gain control in a complex deal with RFC. which had its hands on Harley Clarke's key holding company (TIME, July 22, 1935). Harley Clarke was soon shoved...
Howard Hopson blundered in letting his Associated Gas system buy a fat chunk of U. P. & L. Class B stock in the 1920s. when shares sold as high as $90; Class B shares are now selling at about $1 each. What is more, in receiverships, debentures come before stock. So Floyd Odium's aces looked better than Howard Hopson's kings. In any case, Bill Douglas stands to win, for Floyd Odium hastened to say that he, for one, would not appeal any "death sentence" for U. P. & L. He thought it was "good economics apart from...
Twice in the last century - 1834-39 and 1871-86 - Spain was rocked by the Carlist civil wars. During the 1920s she suffered several general strikes, a seemingly interminable Moroccan War, an ironclad, royally inspired dictatorship under Primo de Rivera. In 1931, she ousted her King, adopted a modern, republican constitution. In 1932, General Sanjurjo led a shortlived Monarchist revolt in Seville. In 1934, Left extremists staged an equally abortive but longer armed rebellion in Asturias. Interested though it was, Europe left Spain's domestic convulsions strictly to Spain...
...example of "the way in which, under modern methods of finance capitalism, the business policies of companies may be warped by forces remote," he cites the participation of National City Bank and Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in the famed campaign to peg copper prices artificially high in the late 1920s in order to grab extra profits from sale of securities. Inevitable result was chaos in the industry and the price broke from...