Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotchkiss & Co., French manufacturers of swank motor cars and machine-guns, last week announced a 60-franc dividend on its common stock...
...Levis not only mastery of 40% of U. S. bottles but interest in a company which makes 40% of U. S. medicinal whiskey, which packs cherries, fruit, and olives, which makes extracts for the ice cream and candy trade. Incidentally it puts Owens-Illinois in line for a dividend of 8,000 cases of 15-year aged-in-the-wood whiskey which National Distillers has declared for holders of record Sept. 15. 1934.* More important to Owens-Illinois is the prospect that in case of Repeal it will make the bottles in which Old Grandad, Old Taylor, Green River, Mount...
...case of 24 full pints for each five shares of National Distillers Products common- a dividend declared last August to induce holders of convertible preferred stock to exercise their option to convert...
...agitated state of the oil business was otherwise illustrated last week: ¶ Socony-Vacuum omitted its 10? quarterly dividend, cut salaries 10%. ¶ Standard Oil of California cut its 30? quarterly dividend in half and cut salaries. ¶ Oil prices in the East Texas field were upped by some companies from the 10? a bbl. of the week before to 25? a bbl., but at the same time they cut prices in other fields of Texas and neighboring States from around...
Biggest deficit in last week's flock of reports was Chrysler Corp.'s $11,254,000, comparing with a small profit in 1931. Directors promptly passed the dividend. Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s deficit of $2,544,000-first since the 1921 slump-was caused by losses in its retail stores, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the home construction division. Last year Sears made $12,170,000. International Harvester, hard hit by dwindling farm income, reported a $7,583,000 deficit. American Water Works & Electric's profits dropped from...