Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat different setup was reported by Treasurer Marion B. Folsom of Eastman Kodak Co., which has paid a "wage dividend" every year since 1912, excepting 1934, the amounts varying with common stock dividends...
...looks like a Y. M. C. A. secretary and makes some of the world's most efficient bombers. In the first nine months this year, his company sold nearly $12,000,000 worth of airplanes and equipment, netting $2,000,000. But his stockholders have never drawn a dividend, all profits having been ploughed back into the company for plant expansion...
...desperate "- and sudden death" approach to highway-safety problems, the Foundation has thus far contributed $1,250,000 to some 16 safety organizations, educational and legislative movements, traffic engineering institutions and personnel-training bodies working for safer highways. By last week this investment had paid a big dividend. Lower by 7,400 than the preceding one-year period's was the traffic fatality score for the twelve months ending October...
...aviation, where the factor of safety plays such a large part, the greatest variable is the weather; and until technical instruments are radically improved, men and planes will surely come to grief. The weather is a basic factor in the creation of what is euphemistically known as the national dividend. It can harass a farmer, make or break his harvest; it can ruin an otherwise good haul of fishermen, or wash out incredibly expensive roadways. All this destruction could be mitigated with more research and less of the present guesswork...
...annual rental received from New York Central. Taxes, expenses and officers' salaries ate up $6,000. The directors voted to pay out the remainder. Thus, to each of 125 stockholders who own the road's 6,000 shares (par: $50) went an 8% dividend, about the amount they always have received and will receive as long as the Central pays its rent...