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...Standard Oil in 1911. In a Federal District Court in Manhattan the Attorney General not only requested perpetual injunctions to restrain Alcoa, its, officers, directors, principal stockholders and subsidiaries from monopolizing or attempting to monopolize the U. S. aluminum industry; Mr. Cummings also asked that Aluminum Co. of America forthwith "be dissolved and its properties be rearranged under several separate and independent corporations." Despite the fact that dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust touched off an historic boom in the shares of its component companies, Alcoa stock promptly crashed from...
Consulting some Pierce Petroleum officials, it learned that the liquidating value of PPX "based on the present price of Consolidated Oil Corp. stock ($17) in all probability could not exceed $1 per share . . . and might be materially less." Forthwith the Governors ordered PPX suspended from trading. In subsequent over-the-country trading PPX promptly plummeted to 37? per share. It was one of the few times in the history of the Exchange that the Governors on their own initiative had stricken a stock from trading to save suckers from their own folly...
...utility holding companies in the U. S.- North American Co. with assets of $891,000,000, American Water Works & Electric Co. with $434,000,000-notified their stockholders that it would be in their best interests to withdraw all litigation against the Utility Act and to register with SEC forthwith. Beaming at this unexpected pleasure. Chairman Landis read to newshawks a letter of congratulation he had written North American's President James F. Fogarty, acknowledging the utilities' right to challenge any SEC action once they were registered. As he finished, in strode grey old Henry Hobart Porter, elder...
...research vessel "Atlantis" of the Oceanographic Institute forthwith set out on an expedition for this purpose, with Dr. Hjort, Professor Bigelow, Professor Redfield, and others on board. A week's voyage between Woods Hole and Cape Small was enough to convince Dr. Hjort that the shrimps are here in commercial quantities...
...bumped him from behind, let out a. roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles he: "I've been hurrying ever since." Dane Knudsen's first U. S. job was in a Morris Heights, N. Y. shipyard, as reamer and riveter at $1.75 per day. Evenings he spent in his boarding house, improving his English by listening...