A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF LONG-TERM INDUSTRIAL FINANCING, including Public Offerings, Private Placements and Sale and Lease-Back Arrangements, by Stuart M. Beringer, Columbia University MBA thesis, ca. 1949

[INVESTMENT BANKING; FINANCE; MANUSCRIPT COLUMBIA U. GRADUATE THESIS BY PROMINENT NYC INVESTMENT BANKER/FINANCIAL EXECUTIVE] A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF LONG-TERM INDUSTRIAL FINANCING, including Public Offerings, Private Placements and Sale and Lease-Back Arrangements, by Stuart M. Beringer, Columbia University MBA thesis submitted by the author about 1949 when he was a graduate student after serving in the Navy during WWII, date determined from dates of books and articles in bibliography mostly from the 1930s and '40s with the latest one 1949 , and author would have been in his mid 20s when this paper was written, black cloth spring binder holding 8-1/2" x 11" carbon-copy typed pages, 62 pages, footnotes, bibliography; NOTES: STUART MARSHALL BERINGER: 1923-2004, was a investment banker in the New York City area, Harvard U., 1943. MBA, Columbia U., 1949, President, P.W. Brooks & Company Inc., New York City, 1947-1966; senior vice president, Blair & Company Inc., New York City, 1966-1970; senior vice president, W.E. Hutton & Company. New York City, 1970-1974; vice president, Reynolds Securities Inc., New York City, 1974-1978; president, Essex Chemical Corporation, Clifton, New Jersey, 1978-1980; senior vice president corporation finance, Thomson McKinnon Securities Inc., New York City, 1980-1989; chairman, TM Capital Corporation, New York City, since 1989. Chairman Servo-Tek Products Company, Inc., since 1982, United States Navy, 1944-1946 (online sources); PROVENANCE: purchased at Westchester County estate sale where Beringer lived for decades /// CONDITION: near fine, faint age-toning of pages.