Word: bethlehem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange one day last week 19 steel stocks made new Recovery highs. U. S. Steel went to $59.75 per share, up $7.75 for the week; Bethlehem to $57.50, up $3.13; Ludlum to $32.50, up $3.50; Colorado Fuel & Iron preferred to $45.87, up $3. The industry was operating at only 52% of capacity, lower than a year ago. What encouraged speculators was the fact that in the face of a sharp dip in automobile production, operations had actually risen five points since the year end. U. S. steel shipments for January showed an unexpected increase of nearly...
...Bethlehem Steel Corp, made $4,291,000 in 1935 as against $550,000 in 1934. In 1935, Bethlehem ran at 39.8% of capacity. Its prices in 1935 averaged 92? a ton more than...
Typical of what a few companies have already done, what many companies will probably do, was Bethlehem's move. Utility holding companies have been madly unscrambling for months. U. S. Steel's merger of its two biggest subsidiaries as Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. last autumn was part of the same pattern. How much he U. S. corporate structure will be simplified before the trend is done no man can say, though one thing is clear: simplification is what the Administration wants and what it is getting...
While busy with Bethlehem's reformation President Grace will also attend to some unfinished business. By April 1 accumulated preferred dividends will amount to $21 per share. To clear up arrears would require nearly $20,000,000. Instead of waiting to pay in cash when & if the company returns to big money, Bethlehem proposes to give each preferred stockholder $1 in cash and $20 in new 5% preferred stock...
...Special Incentive Compensation Fund" he is unlikely to live to see it again. Payments to the fund will be 5% of profits available for common stock. Payments from the fund to executives in any one year are limited to one-fifteenth of that year's aggregate common dividends. Bethlehem bonuses in 1929 were almost one-fifth of dividends paid the following year, peak in Bethlehem's dividend record...