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Index to The "Questioned Stock" Manual Acquisitions: effects of, on stock, 9-11 1948-1958, 14 Addresses: of Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc., 92 of corporate officials, 60-62 of corporations, 60, 70, 71 of Financial Information, Inc., 66n. of Investment Statistics Laboratory, 91 mailing, Section of Public Reference (SEC), 53 of Moody's Investors Service, Inc., 91 of National Association of Securities Dealers, 59 of National Quotation Bureau Incorporated, 69n. of offices of (states) secretaries of state, 44-50 of R. M. Smythe & Co., Inc., 64n. 187 Addresses (Cont.): of search companies, 22n., 25n. of Securities and Exchange Commission regional and branch offices, 54-55 of Standard & Poor's Corporation, 79n. of Wiesenberger Financial Services, 92 American Bank Note Company, 110-113 American Investor (magazine), 77 Anderson, 10 Annual reports, 61 Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc., 92 Articles of incorporation, 41 Asked price, defined, 75 Autographs, as collectors' items, 98, 99 Bank and Quotation Record (magazine), 77 Barron's: National Business and Financial Weekly (newspaper), 77 Bid prices, defined, 75 Bonds, 69 Branch offices, Securities and Exchange Commission, 55 Broker/dealers, National Association of Securities Dealers and, 58-59 Bureau of Economics (of FTC), 12, 14 Burr, Aaron, 99 Business Week (magazine), 77 Cameo printing (letterpress), 108 Canadian provinces, contacting officials in, for information, 49-50 Caribbean officials, contacting, 50 Carnegie, Andrew, 99 Central American officials, contacting, 50 Charters (see Corporate charters) Color reproduction, identifying counterfeit documents made by, table, 114-116 Color xerography, 110, 111 Commercial and Financial Chronicle (newspaper), 77 Common stock, corporate, example, 70, 72-73 Competition, corporate, 120-123 Conglomerates, 14 defined, 13 Consolidations, defined, 13 Corporate charters: cancellation of, 42 information from, 41 Corporation Records (Standard & Poor's), 90 Corporation Register (Standard & Poor's), 61 Corporations: competition among, 120-123 direct contact with, 60-62 existing, as source of information, 40 full legal name and exact spelling of names of, 34 top 100 industrial, tables (1917- 1977), 124-159 top 100 survivors, dropouts, and newcomers, table (1917- 1977), 160-175 (See also Corporate charters; Incorporation) Counterfeit documents, 103-117 aids in detecting, 111-113 copying difficulty as deterrent to producing, 105-106 identifying, table, 114-116 quick checks for, 117 Counterstock, use of term, 5 Dates: of incorporation, 37 of issue of stock, 38 record, 74 Debentures, 69 Detection (see Counterfeit documents) Dilution, defined, 73 Directors, contacting, for information, 60, 61 Directory of Obsolete Securities (National Quotation Bureau), 66-69 Disclosure, 51-52 Dividend Record (Standard & Poor's), 90 Dividends, corporate, example, 70, 73-74 Drake, Edwin, 30 Dropouts: corporate, table (1917-1977), 160-175 (See also Corporations) Earnings Forecaster (Standard & Poor's), 90 Ellis, Dwight H., Jr., 22 Elofsson, Peter, 4 Evans, Thomas M., 10 Exchange, The (magazine), 77 Fillmore, Millard, 98 Finance (magazine), 77 Financial Analyst's Journal, The (magazine), 77 Financial Information, Inc., 40, 66 Financial Times (newspaper), 78 Financial World (magazine), 78 Fisher, Robert, Jr., 95n. Fisher Manuals of Valuable and Worthless Securities (Robert D. Fisher), 97 Float, defined, 72 Forbes (magazine), 78, 119 Fortune (magazine), 78 Fraudulent securities, detection and recognition of (see Counterfeit documents) Fundscope (magazine), 78 Galbraith, John Kenneth, 120 Glossary, 177-186 Goldfader, Ed, 10, 2 In., 26, 28n. Hamilton, Alexander, 7, 99 Herzog, Diana, 95n. Herzog, John, 95n., 96-98, 100, 101 Horizontal mergers, defined, 13 Hurley, Roy T., 122-123 Identification, counterfeit (see Counterfeit documents) Identifying numbers of stock certificates, 37 Incorporation: articles of, 41 offices of secretaries of states and, 41 state of, example, 70, 71 state and date of, 37 Industrials (see Corporations) Industry Surveys (Standard & Poor's), 90 Intaglio printing, 108-112 latent image in, 111-112 Investigation procedure, illustrated, 35 Investment Companies (Wiesenberger Financial Services), 92 Investment Dealers' Digest (magazine), 78 Investment Statistics Laboratory (ISL), 91 ISL Daily Stock Price Index: American Stock Exchange, 91 ISL Daily Stock Price Index: New York Stock Exchange, 91 ISL Daily Stock Price Index: Over-the-Counter and Regional Exchanges, 91 Issue, date of stock, 38 Journal of Commerce (newspaper), 78 Kircher, Donald, 123 Latent image, 111-112 Letterpress (cameo printing), 108 Letters: to company, sample, illustrated, 61 to National Association of Securities Dealers, 59 to Secretary of State, illustrated, 43 to Securities and Exchange Commission, illustrated, 57 Lithography, 108, 110, Ill identifying counterfeit documents made by, table, 114-116 Little, Royal, 121 Livermore, James, 99 McClellan, George, 98-99 Magazines, 77-78 Map of Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters and its regional and branch offices, illustrated, 56 Marvyn Scudder Manual of Extinct or Obsolete Companies (R. M. Smythe), 64 Masse, Micheline, 21n., 22-25, 27n. Mattel, 100 Media General Financial Weekly (newspaper), 78 Mellon, Andrew, 99 Mergers: effects of, on stock, 9-11 per year, in North America, 23 trends in, 12-13 Mining securities, 95-10 Money (magazine), 78 Moody's Investors Service, Inc., 91-92 Moody's Manuals of Investment, American and Foreign, 92 Morgan, J. P., 99 Names: corporate change in, example, 70-72 of legal owners of stock, 37-38 of officers and their titles, 38- 39 official corporate, 34, 70, 71 publication listing, example, 85 National Association of Securities Dealers (NAS D): address for inquiries made of, 59 information from, 58-59 National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System (NASDAQ), 75 National Bond Summary (National Quotation Bureau), 70 National Daily Services (National Quotation Bureau), 69 National Monthly Stock Summary (National Quotation Bureau), 41, 60, 69-70 example of information from, 70-76 National Quotation Bureau Incorporated, 69 New York Stock and Exchange Board, 8 New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), 7-9, 109-110 Newcomers: corporate, table (1917-1977), 160-175 (See also Corporations) News media, information from, 41, 76-79 Newspapers, 77-79 Number: identifying, of stock certificates, 37 of shares owned, 37 Obscure American Securities and Corporations (R. M. Smythe), 97 Officers: names and titles of corporate, 38-39 as source of information, 40, 60, 61 Official Summary of Security Transactions and Holdings (magazine), 78 Officials: addresses of corporate, 60-62 of Canadian provinces, 49-50 Caribbean, 50 Central American, 50 Securities and Exchange Commission, 53-55 See also Officers; Secretary of State, Office ofl 0-T-C Market Chronicle (newspaper), 78 Par value, 39-40 publication listing, example, 70, 72, 86 Periodicals, 77-79 "Pink Sheets" (National Daily Quotation Service), 69, 76 Planchettes, uses of, 110, 112-113, 115 Printing (see Cameo printing; Intaglio printing; Lithography) Public library, as information source, 63-92 Public offerings, corporate, example, 70, 74-75 Public Reference Room (SEC), 53 Publications, 64-93 Questioned stock: creation of, 9 estimated value of, 2 examples showing positive side of, 15-19 periods producing, 23-24 Recognition of counterfeit documents (see Counterfeit documents) Record date, defined, 74 Regional offices of Securities and Exchange Commission, 54-55 Registrars: as source of information, 40 stock certificate and, 39 Stock Transfer Department of, information from,57-58 Registration statements, 52 Revere, Paul, 98 R.M. Smythe & Company, 95-97 as source of information, 40, 64-66 Robert D. Fisher Manual of Valuable and Worthless Securities (R. M. Smythe), 64-66 Robert D. Fisher Service, 97 Rockefeller, John D., 99 Sage, Henry, 99 Schwarzschild, 0. P., 2 Search companies, addresses of, 22n., 25n. Secretary of State, Office of (states): addresses of, 44-50 company addresses obtained through, 60 contacting, 42-43 letter to, illustrated, 43 as source of information, 40-43 Section of Public Reference, Office of Records and Service (SEC), 53 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 2 corporate literature from, 62 letter for contacting, illustrated, 57 as source of information, 40, 51-57 Security Dealers of North America (Standard & Poor's), 91 Security printing, 106-109 Shakespeare, William, 9 Signatures, as collectors' items, 98, 99 Smythe, Roland M., 27, 97 Smythe, R. M., & Company, 95-97 Spread, defined, 75 Standard & Poor's Corporation, 61, 79 Standard & Poor's Stock Guide, 79 definitions of abbreviations in, 85-91 illustrated, 80-84 Stated value, 39-40 States: of incorporation, 37 (See also Secretary of State, Office of Statistical Bulletin (magazine), 78 Stock, origin of word, 5 Stock certificates: as collectors' items, 97-101 data to be gathered from, 34-40 history of, 3-9 old, as counterfeit, 104 printing, 106-109 requirements for printing, 109- 110 as starting point for investigation, 34 (See also Counterfeit documents) Stock Market Information Service, Inc., 22n. Stock Reports (Standard & Poor's), 61, 91 Stock trading, history of, 3-9 Surface printing, 108, 110 Suspension of trading, 51 Tally, use of word, 5 10-K (form) Statement, 61 Titles: names and, of officers of corporation, 38-39 (See also Names) Tracers Company of America, Inc., 25-26, 28-29 address of, 25n. Trade, use of term, 5-6 Trading: history of stock, 3-9 publication showing example of, 70, 75-76, 86-87 suspension of, 51 Transfer agents: example of corporate, 70, 72 as source of information, 40, 57-58 stock certificates and, 39 Stock Transfer Department of, information from, 57-58 Value: par and stated, 39-40 publication listing, example, 70, 72, 86 Value Line Investment Survey, The (Arnold Bernhard), 92 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 99 Vertical mergers, defined, 13 Wall Street, forming of, as securities market, 6-9 Wall Street Journal (newspaper), 79 Wall Street Transcript (newspaper), 79 Wiesenberger Financial Services, 92 William IV (king of England), 5 "Yellow Sheets" (National Daily Quotation Service), 69
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