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Identifier: belltelephone7273mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ommon stocklive east of the Mississippi River;more than half live in the AtlanticSeaboard states. The eastern group of states,which includes New York, New Jer-sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary-land, District of Columbia, Virginiaand West Virginia, contains nearlya million and a quarter people whoown the companys stock—who own, in fact, more than 45 percent ofthe common stock outstanding.Another 10 percent of the ownersreside in the New England states,and a similarly large group is foundin the southern states of NorthCarolina, South Carolina, Georgia,Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ala-bama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Nearly half a million share own-ers reside in the central area statesof Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wis-consin and Illinois, and togetherthey own more than 74 millionshares, or something more than 13percent of the common stock out-standing. Illinois, with nearly a quarter ofa million share owners, ranksfourth—after New York, New Jerseyand California—in the list of states
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with the highest population ofAT&T share owners. While California ranks highamong states with a large ownerpopulation, other western states donot. Less than three percent of theshare owners live in the Northwest,a little more than six percent callthe Southwest home, and the Moun-tain group, which includes Mon-tana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Ida-ho, Utah and Colorado, claims few-er than three percent of the owners. While more than 99 percent ofthe owners live in the continentalUnited States, some 3,500 of themlive in Hawaii, 750 in Alaska, andnearly 1,000 in Puerto Rico, theCanal Zone and other U.S. posses-sions. Less than one percent of theowners live in foreign countries, buttheir holdings of more than eightmillion shares are significant. Asyou might expect, our northernneighbor, Canada, leads the list offoreign countries having large num-bers of AT&T share owners. Ofcountries having 300 and moreowners, ranked in order after Can-ada come Germany, England, Italy,Ireland, Switzerlan

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