Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving 66. Including large profit from Government bond trading, probably a non-recurring item, earnings for 1934 would be about $4,900,000, down slightly from the year before. So, with no end to the Government's easy money policy in sight, Banker Baker recommended a cut in the dividend from...
...James Guffey, uncle of U. S. Senator-elect Joseph Guffey. It was then called the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Co. Guffey Petroleum went into the red when its wells in the fabulous Texas Spindletop field turned to water. By 1913 the Mellons had built Gulf Oil into a dividend-paying property. By 1929 its net income had averaged $25,000,000 a year for nearly a decade. It was the world's third largest producer of crude when William Larimer Mellon retired from the presidency in 1931. He and Uncle Andrew surveyed the list of Mellon first-string executives...
Christmas was still a month off but many a potent corporation last week began opening its surplus sock and doling out extra dividends. A round dozen announced extras and specials amounting to nearly $10,000,000, bringing November's total dividend declarations to $347,000,000, highest since February...
...regular quarterly of $1.25. Directors of American Can took Wall Street and some of the company's own officers by surprise with a $1 extra besides the regular $1 quarterly. A small chemical company named Vulcan Detinning, which in 32 years of corporate existence has omitted common dividends for 28, made enough out of reducing scrap tinplate to pay a $4 special. Ruberoid Co., which has not missed a dividend since 1889. announced a 25¢ regular, a 25¢ extra. Ingersoll-Rand, makers of compressors and pneumatic tools, had $2 a share extra for stockholders. So did Draper Corp. of Hopedale...
...assets, you know, are only $6,000,000, yet last year we made a profit of nearly $1,000,000. and the way things are going, our directors will probably declare a 50% stock dividend when they meet next week. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System...