Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organized in 1892. Great Western was sold under foreclosure in 1909. asked for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act in February 1935. It has never paid a common stock dividend, has never paid its $4 preferred in full. Last year the road piled up a $902,363 deficit. Had it been operating under the ICC-approved reorganization, it would have earned only 1.4% on its capitalization. This fact presumably prompted Commissioner Mahaffie to dissent again, ask for a more thorough revamping. Said he: "The majority approve a plan that cuts obligatory interest severely and to a basis that...
...this June. The figures which most jolted British investors were the earning reports of the four chief railway companies-London & North Eastern, London, Midland & Scottish, Great Western, The Southern. Fortnight ago, when all four showed net revenues far below expectations and Great Western passed the first interim dividend since its consolidation, there were editorials in many a paper...
...came, caused a stir among baseball fans. The Cubs were in third place in the National League pennant race, had just won seven games in a row before losing to the resurgent Dodgers, and their $185,000 investment in Dizzy Dean's pitching arm had paid its first dividend (after a two-month moratorium) in the form of a four-hit victory over the Boston Bees...
...expressive shrug, "Ich bin künstler" ("I am an artist"). For an artist, genial, beer-drinking Strauss is an unusually shrewd business man. Famed as a hard bargainer, he is one of the few men in history to make the art of highbrow musical composition a sound and dividend-paying proposition...
...Young considered it a victory, for he still had about half the stockholders and most of the directors in his camp.*Last week in Cleveland the new board re-elected Mr. Young's C. & O. management, including President George Doswell Brooke. Directors also voted to pay a 25?dividend on July 1, said they planned to pay another 25? next October. If they do, C. & O.'s common stockholders, who received $3.80 last year, will get $2 in 1938, least since 1921. Meanwhile, final outcome of the big battle for C. & O. waited on the pleasure...