“...I’ll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company?...”
I understand. Our family fortune was invested heavily in North American Whalebone. It was used for corsets and many other products.
My grandmother sold corsets door to door in NYC in the 1930s.
Before that she worked in a music store playing the piano to sell sheet music. That was pretty much the entire music industry back then, instruments and sheet music.