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Post by redsycorax on Aug 9, 2023 23:45:27 GMT
It probably had something to do with investments in military logistics industries, given that historical period, particularly if his financial advisors weren't from the Republican isolationist states in the midwest back then, given some of them stridently opposed US involvement in the European conflict (although the same might not be true of Japan). Another reason might have been inheritance. Sadly, Brian might have also lost some wealthier relatives during the Second World War, particularly if they were of military age and in the services. I'd guess that might have been in the Philippines or in the Pacific theatre during the course of that conflict.
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Post by dans on Aug 10, 2023 2:14:32 GMT
I think he was an early investor in IBM and had some IBM stock in a dividend re-investment program with Merril, Lynch, Pearce, Fenner and Smith when he got caught in Suspendium - and his investment grew over the 20 years he was away...
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Post by redsycorax on Aug 10, 2023 4:49:34 GMT
Okay, so I did a check on Dan's rationale and it looks like once again, he's right on the money (so to speak!). During the latter stages of World War II, IBM built a prototype electromechanical computer, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Harvard Mark I. At a guess, I'd say that this demonstration of positive benefits for the US war effort encouraged more government and collaborative business support for the fledgling information technology sector. Here it is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I
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Post by lawrenceliberty on Aug 10, 2023 14:21:12 GMT
Right. I wrote that good investments enriched him during the Suspendium time. Can't have starving mystery men.
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