Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With this as a resource, the stockholders have declared a dividend of 9 per cent. on all cash purchases and 7 per cent. on charge purchases at the Harvard Square stores. At Technology the dividends will be paid at the rate of 10 per cent. on cash purchases and 8 per cent. on charge sales. Dividends are now ready for delivery at the main store in Harvard Square, or at the Technology Branch store...
...earnings of the Technology Branch, as revealed by the semi-annual statement, more than prove that the establishment of such a store was a profitable experiment, and with reasonable prosperity during the remainder of the year that branch will earn for its members a higher rate on the dividend than will be earned on the business of the main store. The latter, however, has accumulated from the proceeds of preceding years a surplus which can be used to make up for any loss. A considerable reduction in expenses also was made. The reason assigned for the difference between the amount...
Christmas will supply the answer for many; charity, especially war charity, will receive much of the Liberty dividend. Others will cash the coupon with the postmaster and immediately hand him back the money, with a request for thrift stamps or war savings stamps. Still others will simply deposit the coupon at the bank and be credited with so much more paid on their second Liberty bonds...
...slight change of policy in regard to the payment of dividends will be inaugurated this autumn. Heretofore the dividend checks have been distributed in October or November, but in any case several weeks after the opening of the University. The dividends for the year 1916-1917, however, will be paid on and after September 24. After deducting from the profits certain amounts for the reserves there remained available for dividends at the main store $16,894.13 and at the Technology branch $5,928.51, a total of $22,822.64. The amount so available a year ago was $15,202.84. Last year...
...seems to be riding nicely on our flood tide of national economic prosperity. With sales at its three stores amounting to more than $300,000, and with net earnings of nearly $32,000 on half the year's business, there seems to be no danger of a shrunken dividend in the near future. Even better still, these figures demonstrate the soundness of the co-operative principle and prove that the profit-sharing plan can more than hold its own with any other plan of retail business when given a fair opportunity...