According to Davis (1963), industrial firms need capital to expand, gr

According to Davis (1963), industrial firms need capital to expand, grow and develop. They will seek the most efficient means to finance this capital. In the U.S.

during its period of industrialization, industrialists raised the resources needed to invest in capital accumulation by (a) tapping into the lending power of giant commercial banks.
(b) utilizing the lending power of a large number of small banks.
(c) merging.
(d) engaging in all of the above.

ANSWER

(b)