MANIPULATIVE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Manipulative

... purchased the several Boston gas properties he organized a company, the Bay State of Delaware, in which this ownership was vested. In order to facilitate the financing of the new corporation and for other manipulative purposes of his own, Addicks created an inner corporation, the Bay State of New Jersey, owned by the treasury of the Bay State of Delaware, to which he turned over the stocks of the Boston gas companies. These the Bay ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson