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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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