Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basic cause of Virginia-Carolina dissension is the corporation's stock setup. There are three classes of stock-first, a Prior Preference stock, which pays a 7% cumulative dividend; then a Participating Preferred, which pays a 6% cumulative dividend; and finally a common stock, which has never paid any dividends since the present company was organized in 1926. The company is $16.50 per share in arrears on the Prior Preference, $43 per share behind on the Participating...
...despite these encouraging statistics. Electric Bond & Share itself made only $9,264,973-hardly more than enough to cover its preferred dividend and poorest profit year of the entire Depression period...
...said the manager of the Coop yesterday in the annual interview on the dividend, "we always find them...
...largest dividend of the past year, some recipient should claim a stipend in the vicinity of $60. That semi-mythical person had not turned up yesterday, but one individual was seen proudly waving a $19 hward, while a Dunster man appeared greening over his net profit of $14 on the first year...
...whose members sells $1,000.000 of insurance annually. Into successful Insuranceman Kemp's Manhattan office last week marched two detectives to arrest him for forgery and grand larceny. Sighed Prisoner Kemp: "I've been expecting this for seven years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers, beneficiary. He had forged Mrs. Rogers' signature, pocketed the money. Accountants, delving into his records, concluded that over a period of seven years he had used equally simple methods to bilk W. C. Fields, Mrs. James J. Walker (Betty Compton), Vivienne...