Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week was Frazier Jelke & Co.'s survey of investment trust holdings, made each year to spot the drift of common stock popularity. After examining 80 portfolios, the firm ventured: "Analysis . . . shows an increasing preference for dividend paying stocks and further elimination of public utility holding company issues. . . . Holdings of better oils and rails have increased . . . and commitments . . . in heavy industries have decreased...
...Orleans bank crisis (TIME, Jan. 16), TIME also erred in stating that Standard Fruit & Steamship stock "was issued at $100 a share, promptly slumped to $10." Standard Fruit stock was issued in 1926 in $1,000 units consisting of ten shares of preferred, 20 of common. Last preferred dividend was paid in 1927. Although the units later rallied, they had touched $355 before...
Motorman Willys retained his preferred stock. In 1931 the preferred dividend was omitted. After four omissions control of the company automatically reverted to the preferred holders, of whom Motorman Willys was the largest. So Motorman Willys returned to active management. Having sold his house in Toledo, he commutes from Manhattan where he has a Fifth Avenue home. During his sojourns he stops at the Toledo Club. Frankly paternalistic toward employes, he once hired Barnum & Bailey's circus for two days to amuse them. His doings are always front-page news for Toledo's Press. When King Albert...
...advisory board of Boston's Massachusetts Investors Trust last December, accepted a trusteeship in Century Shares Trust last month. As everyone expected after President Walter Sherman Gifford's near-promise in the annual report, A. T. & T.'s board last week declared the regular $2.25 quarterly dividend...
Discounting the question of academic promotion, is your main interest in tutorial work, in course work, or in research? Research 30 Dividend between research and one other subject 15 Tutorial work 17 Divided between tutorial work and one other subject 13 Course work 13 Divided between course work and one other subject 9 Divided between all three subjects 34 No answer...