Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...communications, American Telephone & Telegraph President Frederick R. Kappel said the decline in new phone installations was reversed in September and "business is on the way up." Betting heavily on the future, A.T. & T. will spend $2 billion on construction next year for the fourth year...
...stockholders fared so well. Du Pont chopped its year-end payment from $2 to $1.50 per share. United Fruit, citing fruit damage from wind storms, cut its dividend from 75? to 50?. American Telephone & Telegraph declared the same $2.25 quarterly dividend it has paid for 37 years, despite a spate of rumors of a raise. But stockholders have fared well this year despite dividend cuts in hard-hit industries. The New York Stock Exchange reported that cash dividends on common stocks for the first three quarters set a record high of $6.4 billion, up $11.2 million from...
...American Airlines' 1,500 pilots also set a deadline for a strike this week. As with the engineers, the issue is higher pay (up an average 15% a month to $1,900 for senior DC-7 pilots) and a contract with the line specifying that the "third man" in the cockpit of the new jets will be a pilot as well as an engineer...
...AMERICAN MOTORS' earnings exceed even most optimistic estimates. Per share earnings for fiscal 1958 (which ended Sept. 30) jumped to $4.40 a share, v. last year's loss of $2.12. Profits climbed to $26 million (of which almost $12 million was made in July-September quarter), v. last year's deficit...
Collins put a verve into British T that BBC lacked-and viewers ate it up. He built up ATV's early audience with variety shows, brought over big American stars (Liberace, Pat Boone) and shows (Cheyenne and Wyatt Earp), went in for such serious topics as abortion and the U.S. recession, only last week featured Sir Laurence Olivier in his first TV play, a performance of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman. Collins' forward-looking programing has put five of ATV's shows among England...