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Show THOUSANDS INVOLVED Shareholders in United States Steel Are Numerous. New York. Nov. 29. Brokerage and banking houses toda;. received a request re-quest from the United States Stee! Corporation for a list of their shareholders. share-holders. The corporation. It Is understood. un-derstood. Is seeking to learn the actual ac-tual number of Its shareholders in oider to show that steel shares are not concentrated In tie hands of the so-called "steel Interests" but are distributed dis-tributed all over the world. Thousands Thous-ands of shares are held by Individuals 1n the names of brokerage and banking bank-ing houses. The corporation's letter let-ter says: "We desire to ascertain, lf possible, tho number of record stockholders of the United States Steel Corporation and the amount of their holdings divided di-vided Into classes as follows: "Number of stockholders of ten shares and under; number of stockholders stock-holders of 11 to 100 Inclusive; 101 to 500 shares Inclusive: 501 to 1.000 shares Inclusive; 1.001 lo 5.000 shares Inclusive, 5,001 to 10.000 shares inclusive, in-clusive, and over 10.000 shares. The brokers are promised that anv information thiy give will be treated confidentially. |