Word: dividend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size up the state of business. All last week figures were being issued which showed that the Spring recovery in business did not exceed the usual seasonal gain, and was giving signs of dying away. Perhaps most frightening, so far as the stockmarket is concerned, have been the many dividend reductions and omissions, although these reflect past business, not future. During March, 114 dividends were omitted, as against 57 such actions in March 1930; 115 dividends were reduced, against ten last year...
...sometimes agrees with the doctors and sometimes shouts defiance at them. Many times the doctors cannot agree themselves. All year the oil giant's condition has grown steadily more alarming and his suffering is communicated directly to the many thousands of persons on his payroll as laborers and dividend-getters. Popular demand will keep him from dying but it alone can never cure...
While the storm was at its height, the directors of the biggest U. S. company in the field met to act upon the dividend. Presiding over the meeting was Charles Edward Adams, chairman of United States Industrial Alcohol since 1927, president of Air Reduction Co. (owner of a large minority interest in Alcohol) since 1921. Even were the storm not raging, it is safe to guess that onetime (1902-04) Yale Crewman Adams would have advised curtailment of the dividend, conservation of strength in the long race for profits. For after earnings which rose steadily from...
Cunard Passage. With a big ship abuilding and profits down from 1929's $4,000,000 to $93.000, last week directors of Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd. passed the dividend on common snares, said they have cut salaries. The new ship will be 73,000-tons, to cost $30,000,000, is being built on the Clyde. It is now known merely as "No. 534," the contractor's name...
...makes oldfashioned, wage-slashing German industrialists quite so angry as the newfangled, wage-raising ways of German Ford Company. Last week this young upstart child of the parent U. S. firm announced that during 1930 it did 25% of all automobile business in Germany, proceeded to declare a 10% dividend...