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...They hadn't. He asked for a day, returned with a description of a hypothetical "X Corporation," told how a marriage with hail of "X Corporation" would solve Curtiss' problem. The directors agreed, but they did not tumble until Odlum spelled out the name of "X Corporation": ATLAS...
...common, or (if "A" stockholders prefer) for ½ share of new preferred and 1/5 of a share of common. To "A" stockholders it meant an assured dividend and preferred position in liquidation (neither of which they had before), plus a higher conversion price, greater voting power. To holders of Atlas 6% preferred it meant a share for share exchange for Curtiss-Wright's new 5% preferred with a bonus of ¼ share of Curtiss-Wright common (which at the market -around $10.50 a share-takes care in advance of over five years' cut in dividend) plus...
...Curtiss, which will have 700,000 to 1.000,000 shares of preferred, and a new load of $1,850,000-$2, 500,000 a year in preferred dividends, the deal will bring enough new cash and marketable securities from Atlas to give it about $1 in current assets (depending on the number of preferred shares) for each $1 of preferred...
...Curtiss has 1940 earnings of $15,000,000 they will protect the dividend six to eight times whereas Atlas' usual earnings barely covered...
...Curtiss-Wright common stockholders the main advantages are the $37,000,000 of new capital from Atlas, the hope that this can be put to work to earn a return handsome enough for expansion plus dividends, and a straightened-out capital structure. To holders of Atlas' 3,000,000-odd shares of common (year-end net asset value: $12.80), it means trading $5 per share of their asset value for 65/100 share of Curtiss-Wright Common having a market value of over $6.75 ($10.50 a full share), and the remaining $7.80 per share of their asset value...