Manipulative tricks have always been worked in connection with stocks of which one man or one set of men has had complete control.

It was no different from what subsequently was done with Erie, Standard Oil, Copper, Sugar, Wheat, and what not.
Cowperwood was one of the first and one of the youngest to see how it could be done.

When he first talked to Stener he was twenty-eight years of age.

When he last did business with him he was thirty-four.
The houses and the bank-front of Cowperwood & Co.

had been proceeding apace.