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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crocker First National never loses money, has resources of $142,000,000, handles in addition to the Crocker oil, real estate and railroad interests such lucrative accounts as Matson Navigation, Pacific Gas & Electric, Standard Oil of California, Hawaiian Pineapple. Its dividend rate is $14 and its stock sells for $300 per share...
...motor, now being adopted by other truck makers. One advantage is increased payload per inch of wheelbase, an important factor because of legal limitations on truck lengths. Short trucks are also easier to maneuver in cramped quarters, and Autocars are a favorite with coal dealers. Autocar has paid no dividend on its common stock since 1921, though in the War boom it once paid $10 in one year including a $1 "Red Cross" special. Sales have dropped about 50% since 1929 when the company took in $15,600,000, kept $854,000 as profit. Deficits have since been the rule...
...news last week was Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime (1934-35) Securities & Exchange Commission chairman. Mr. Kennedy accepted a special job to study proposed plans for RCA's recapitalization. The wireless company would like to trim down its massive capital structure, but the B preferred stock has $21.25 dividend accumulation which would cost $16,000,000 to pay up. Though the preferred has no back dividends it is capable at $55 a share and its retirement would require $27,000,000. There are also 13,000,000 shares of common on which no cash dividends have ever been declared...
...special $5,000,000 Depression reserve back to surplus, voted to retire $10,000,000 of the $25,000,000 of preferred stock sold to RFC, declared in advance three quarterly payments of $1 each on the common stock, announced that this action established a regular $4 annual dividend rate". It was First National's first dividend since...
Grouse though they still do about low interest rates, bankers are currently making a little more money. Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings last week upped its regular dividend rate from 6% to 8%. Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. paid a 25? extra. Marine Midland, big New York State group holding company, sweetened its regular with a 15? extra. Amadeo Peter Giannini's billion-dollar Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association in San Francisco declared a regular quarterly dividend of $1,250,000, an extra of $1,000,000. A big RFC borrower a few years...