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Hoover's Fortune Slash: From Burma Mines to Global Holdings
Fortune’s profile traces Herbert Hoover’s wealth rise from a modest $10,000 pre 1900 to multi million assets by 1914. It details his roles with Chinese and British interests, transfers of Burma Mines properties, and earnings from Bewick Moreing and various ventures. It notes stock promotions, bailouts, and losses shaping his wealth through 1914, including ties to Burma Mines Ltd and the Zinc Corporation.
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Hoover
Fortune
Herbert Hoover
Bureau of Mines
Chihli
Jehol
C. Algernon Moreing
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company
China
Chinai
Real Start In Mining Co
Moreing
Granville Mining Company
London
Yukon
Central Mining and Investment Company
Trinidad Oil Companies
Odo
Zinc Corporation
Mr. Hoover
Burma
London Partnership
Bishopsgate Syndicate
Russo-Asiatic Consolidated
Leland Stanford
California
Washington
Intercontinental Development Company
Washington Herald
Bewick
West
Australia
New York
San Francisco
Colny
Burmaines Ltd
R. Tilden Smith
Vari Financial