Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazi dissatisfaction with the old UFA management stemmed directly from the fact that the average German still has an unconverted preference for U. S. films. The company made a little money last year, but not enough to pay a dividend, nor were its propaganda films at all successful abroad. Stormed Dr. Goebbels: "Our films are too commercial, they must be more artistic. . . .* The German film has reached the point where it must fulfill its duty to the state, nation and culture. It must exercise international influence, it must become a spiritual world power...
...cars over last year despite interruption of operations during a five-week strike. Net sales were $183,207,000, compared with $148,464,000 during the first quarter of 1936. Net profits, however, decreased from $11,453,000 to $10,914.000. These figures studied, Chrysler directors upped the quarterly dividend rate from...
...Taylor of U. S. Steel expressed "a tremendous ambition" to see all common stockholders rewarded for their patience when he addressed the company's annual meeting last month, Wall Street financial circles last week half-expected Big Steel directors to dip into surplus enough to pay off preferred dividend arrearage, thus pave the way tor a resumption on common. Since the corporation earned $28,561,000 for the first quarter of 1937, it ,would have taken $11,000,000 more to clear up the $9.25 per share arrearage plus $1.75 per share current requirements on 3,602,811 shares...
Cash in it did. In the five years through 1936 the value of Canada's mineral output soared from $191,000,000 to a new high of $360,000,000, nearly one-third in gold alone. The total of dividend payments by Dominion mines more than tripled. Mining now ranks ahead of lumber and newsprint as the most important Dominion industry outside of agriculture. And the Toronto Stock Exchange, now merged with its old mining rival, not only outstrips the Montreal market in dollar-volume of trading but also exceeds every exchange in North America except New York...
...been jailed for fraud in Illinois, was wanted by the police of Boston, where he had mulcted various people of some $100,000 to start his financial sheet. Like Boston's Charles Ponzi, he promised huge returns on funds entrusted to him for reinvestment, made enough "dividend" payments from principal to reassure his victims, who then hurried to pile in more & more. But none of these outrageous facts was known to the Observer's subscribers until last week...