Word: cut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority of its 67,000 employes, last week big General Electric Co. cut a $4,750,000 holiday melon. The melon consisted of two parts. Under its profit-sharing plan,* instituted in 1934, employes of five or more years' service shared $2,400,000 (compared to $556,800 last year). Under the three-year-old plan of adjusting wages to the cost of living (U. S. Department of Labor Index), employes shared another $2,350,000 (almost $1,000,000 less than 1938). Together, the two bonuses add 5-75% to employes' earnings for 1939's last...
...veteran of World War I (named after St. Anastasia, who had her tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...
...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 a thin dime. In 1933 conservating Curtis Publishing had to cut its preferred dividend to nothing...
...Plan. Its proposals: Let holders of 7% preferred agree to exchange up to two-thirds of the total shares held for a $4.50 prior preferred; let the new shares have preference over the old in future dividends but no rights to accrued dividends. This arrangement would cut gross preferred dividend requirements from $6,300,000 to $4,800,000 and lop off two-thirds of the accrued dividend bill (saving well over...
...Director Irwin Esmond-of N. Y. State's Education Department (Motion Picture Division) called it "inhuman, sacrilegious and tending to incite to crime." New York censors promptly banned it, almost as quickly reversed their ban after the title was changed to Beasts of Berlin, some 67 feet were cut out of the film. Soon in other States bans and okays flew as thick as autumn leaves. By last week New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians and the citizens of Detroit, Mich, might see the picture. Ohioans, Virginians and the citizens of Chicago and Providence, R. I., emphatically might not. Reason: banning censors...