Great business disasters
Subtitle: swindlers, bunglers, and frauds in American industry.
Publisher: Playboy Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Bankruptcy -- United States -- Case studies.; Commercial crimes -- United States -- Case studies.; Swindlers and swindling -- United States -- Case studies.
Table of contents: title: Shaplen, R. The metamorphosis of Philip Musica.; title: Time magazine. The decline and fall of Billie Sol Estes.; title: The New York herald tribune. The great soybean scandal.; title: Brooks, J. The fate of the Edsel.; title: Bernstein, E. Real estate's Humpty-Dumpty: Bill Zeckendorf after the fall.; title: Barmash, I. The great electrical conspiracy.; title: Rossant, M. J. Atlantic acceptance: even the big ones got stung.; title: Communications problems at Texas Gulf Sulphur and Merrill Lynch.; title: Phillips, M. Gilbert wanted an empire of his own.; title: Robards, T. Fears fulfilled as big broker fails.; title: Hershey, R. D. The glamorous road to bankruptcy.; title: Gardner, W. D. Curtain act at RCA.; title: Tobias, A. The $3,754,103 footnote.; title: Newsweek magazine. What happened to the perpetual money-making machine?; title: Bedingfield, R. E. Pennsy: bad management or ailing industry debated.; title: Zimmerman, F. L. Penn Central officials sold stock as carrier was nearing disaster.; title: Pinkerton, W. S. Penn Central faces lengthy legal snarls under bankruptcy laws.