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Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War Two
by Jennet Conant.
Simon and Schuster, 330 pp., £9.99, July 2003,0 684 87288 9 Show More
by Jennet Conant.
Simon and Schuster, 330 pp., £9.99, July 2003,
“... took an active part in shaping the institutional geography of the electric power industry. He was, Jennet Conant writes, ‘a corporate capitalist of the first order’. In 1928, Stimson warned his cousin about the massive speculative bubble that was developing in the stock market, and particularly in the electric utilities, but he was preaching to the ... ”
