Business: Atlas for RFC

A man could count on all his fingers and toes only one-fourth of all the holding and operating companies which Promoter Harley Lyman Clarke put under the control of Utilities Power & Light Corp. of Chicago. Serving 550 communities in the U. S., 488 in England and Wales. 31 in Canada, Utilities Power & Light is, however, not the apex of Promoter Clarke's classic pyramid. Its control rests in a small issue of voting stock held by a super holding company called Public Utilities Securities Corp. which in turn is controlled by a super-super...

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