Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day of the war, the women in Paris, by a spontaneous and almost common accord, left their hats m their closets and sallied forth bareheaded...
...Discretionary with directors, the plan gives employes up to 12½% of earnings available for common stock dividends after deducting 8 % of the stock's average book value...
...their stockholders the two firms proposed that they would merge. Reason: to make their cooperative enterprise permanent, remove any possibility of a bust-up. The deal: 1) Melville to acquire all of McElwain's outstanding 16,966 7% preferred and 104,726 common shares; 2) Melville stockholders to submit to reclassification of their 99,992 6% preferred, 404,722 common shares, take shares of the new company in return...
...when it reported a net of $21,534,265, an all-time high for any publishing enterprise. Holders of its 7% preferred (of which 722,714 of 900,000 shares are now held by the public) got their dividends as they had for years. Holders of its common got $8 in dividends, felt they had a fine investment in a stock which was selling at $132 before the October crash. But by the depth of the depression in 1932 the dividend on common had dropped to $1. Since then, no holder of the 1,732,366 shares outstanding has received...
...this time Curtis preferred stockholders had a thumping $12,339,273 coming to them in preferred dividends, and not even the sharp eyes of President Walter Deane Fuller could see the money in sight. Meanwhile the holders of the common, headed by the Bok family, descendants of the late great Curtis Founder Cyrus Herman Kotz-schmar Curtis (who own 836,626 shares), were becoming impatient...