WALL STREET: A Lesson for Henry

Motormaker Henry Kaiser and Moneyman Cyrus S. Eaton of Cleveland's Otis & Co. were a smooth-working financial team. The two friends had floated two issues of Kaiser-Frazer stock, and when K-F needed steel, Eaton had set up a steel company to supply some of it. When K-F decided to float a third stock issue to raise capital for expansion (TIME, Feb. 16), it was Otis & Co. which headed the underwriting syndicate. Last week, Friend Cyrus performed another service for Friend Henry. He gave him a dazzling lesson in high finance that...

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