Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...induced to buy 200 shares of Southern Cities Supply stock for $15 each on the assurance that they would soon be worth $33. He was told the company was building a great brick kiln at Birmingham. After a 20? dividend had been declared he bought 300 more shares. Said he: ''The proposition was so appealing to me I fell for it promptly." Soon thereafter dividends ceased, Representative Rainey...
...business, whereby the Patterson family sold about two-thirds of its inheritance to the public but retained practical control. In this case the plan was to issue two classes of stock. Class A, with a total market value of $55,000,000 and having certain preferred rights as to dividends, was sold to the public. A majority of the Class B was kept by President Frederick Beck Patterson (son of the founder), the rest by his close associates. As long as dividends were paid to the public's A, the family's B controlled the company. Last year...
...Dividends. The directors of American Telephone & Telegraph declared the regular dividend last week. Some 712,000 stockholders will receive $41,990,000 through the action. Electric Bond & Share declared its regular stock dividend but announced that in future payments will be determined annually. Its big subsidiary, United Gas Corp., halved its first preferred. Transamerica Corp. announced that while it could pay a dividend now it will not. Penick & Ford, Ltd. surprised Wall Street by doubling its usual 50? extra. Chesebrough Manufacturing and Bon Ami maintained their extra payments but Coca-Cola passed its usual $1 extra (blamed: taxation...
...Coffers. Last week directors of General Motors Corp. weighed a $4,464,000 third-quarter loss-first since 1921-against $209,098,832 of cash & marketable securities still remaining in G. M.'s fat coffers, then declared the regular 25c dividend. Chrysler Corp. directors, too, balanced a $5,346,146 third-quarter loss against the company's cash & marketable securities of $51,000,000, voted the regular 25? payment. Next day in a radio salesmeeting over a national network Chairman Walter P. Chrysler told his 75,000 dealers and salesmen that the new Plymouth was base priced...
Although it is one of the biggest seafood companies, handling 65,000,000 lb. a year and running four big cold storage plants and 75 sales offices, Booth has not earned much money lately. In 1920 it paid its last preferred dividend; during its last reported fiscal year ending May 2, 1931, it lost $1,204,000. President of the company until he died by his own hand last year was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, publisher of Chicago's Journal of Commerce, fullback (Princeton) on Walter Camp's first (1889) All-American football team...