Other People's Money, and How the Bankers Use ItBrandeis, Louis Dembitz
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Other People's Money, and How the Bankers Use It
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz
Banks and banking -- United States; Finance -- United States
“The General Electric Company holds in the first place all the
common stock in three security holding companies: the United
Electric Securities Co., the Electrical Securities Corporation,
and the Electric Bond and Share Co. Directly and through these
corporations and their officers the General Electric controls a
large part of the water power of the United States.
... “The water-power companies in the General Electric group are
found in 18 States. These 18 States have 2,325,757 commercial
horsepower developed or under construction, and of this total
the General Electric group includes 939,115 h. p. or 40.4 per
cent. The greatest amount of power controlled by the companies in
the General Electric group in any State is found in Washington.
This is followed by New York, Pennsylvania, California, Montana,
Iowa, Oregon, and Colorado. In five of the States shown in the
table the water-power companies included in the General Electric
group control more than 50 per cent. of the commercial power,
developed and under construction. The percentage of power in
the States included in the General Electric group ranges from a
little less than 2 per cent. in Michigan to nearly 80 per cent.
in Pennsylvania. In Colorado they control 72 per cent.; in New
Hampshire 61 per cent.; in Oregon 58 per cent.; and in Washington
55 per cent.
“Besides the power developed and under construction water-power
concerns included in the General Electric group own in the States
shown in the table 641,600 h. p. undeveloped.”
This water power control enables the General Electric group to control
other public service corporations:
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