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Steel's : a forgotten stock market scandal from the 1920s / Dave Dyer.
Lippincott Library HG4928.5 .D94 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyer, Dave.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steel, L. R, 1878-1923.
- Steel, L. R.
- Investment advisors--United States--Case studies.
- Investment advisors.
- Fraud--United States--Case studies.
- Fraud.
- Ponzi schemes--United States--Case studies.
- Ponzi schemes.
- Financial services industry--Corrupt practices--United States--Case studies.
- Financial services industry.
- Financial services industry--Corrupt practices.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- 1 The Man Who Did Almost Everything Right: The Right Business at the Right Time in the Right Place 1
- 2 The Creative Promise of the L. R. Steel Company: Ten Thousand Lollipops 13
- 3 Inventing the Infomercial: Fifty Endings 31
- 4 The Life of a Salesman at the L. R. Steel Company: "How's Yer Pep?" 42
- 5 The Stores: The Best Fifty-Cent Chicken Dinner in Canada 63
- 6 The Denver Miracle: "Meet Me at Steel's Corner" 81
- 7 The Late-Night Meeting: "Well, Folks, Here We Are" 101
- 8 L. R.'s Last Train Ride: "I Was Awakened by a Peculiar Sound" 110
- 9 Was It a Ponzi Scheme?: Would a Crook Live Next to a Chicken Farm? 118
- 10 What Went Wrong?: Failure Is an Option 126
- 11 The Legacy of Failure: Life Goes on... or Not 134
- 12 Postscript 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815610120
- 0815610122
- OCLC:
- 813949511
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