This book sums up what he has observed about the stock market through contacts with hundreds of analysts, investment managers, financial consultants, brokers and professional investors. Throughout the book, he sprinkles specifics about a wide range of stocks from U.S. Steel to Northwest Airlines and many more with details that show what has made them buying opportunities for individual investors.
At Point Fullerton, one thousand miles straight north of civilization, Sergeant William MacVeigh was writing his semi-annual report to the Commissioner of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police at Regina. His cold-stiffened fingers wrote with the stub end of a pencil the last words of his report.
Twenty separate essays cover both "Architecture" and "Arts and Crafts" in the ten North American culture areas: the Arctic, California, the Great Basin, the Northeast, the Northwest Coast, the Plains, the Plateau, the Southeast, the Southwest, and the Subarctic.
