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...transaction, and even got the unsuspecting sellers to show drivers' licenses or other identification. ("We told them we had to be sure who we were dealing with," said one officer.) The imaginative ploy, which was similar to one in New York City a year ago, paid an added dividend: many of the customers tried to impress the supposedly Mafia-connected fences with tales of crimes they had got away with. Their boasts-plus the loot-have led to 10,000 investigations including murder, bank robbery, hijacking and mail theft...
...already well ahead of the $9.2 billion actually marketed in all of last year. Stock splits are also on the rise; they have been announced by such companies as Bendix, Crane, Amsted, and U.S. Steel. Most important, corporate directors are encouraging investors by announcing the largest number of dividend increases in 20 years...
During January and February, 454 dividend increases were announced, v. 226 in the same months a year earlier. Among them: R.H. Macy, Federated Department Stores, Bank of America, Carnation, American Brands, General Foods and Owens-Illinois. The most notable boost was by American Telephone and Telegraph, which has more stockholders (2,923,000) than any other U.S. company. AT&T surprised Wall Street last month by raising its quarterly dividend on each share a dime to 950, double the increase that analysts had expected. A T & T's profits actually declined slightly from 1974 to 1975, but Chairman John...
Behind the current surge in dividends is a desire by many companies to make their stocks more attractive, thus allowing them to raise money by issuing new stock instead of by bonds or other debt securities. Debt financing swelled considerably during the past five years as stock prices fell to levels so low as to make new issues virtually impossible to market. Many stocks are still selling far below their record high prices, and a dividend sweetener is seen by many corporate finance officers as a way to increase demand...
...invested the $500 it takes to pay the state Secretary of State's election fee, and came up with the 500 signatures it takes to get on the ballot in each of New Hampshire's two primary districts. The meager 188 votes that Clegg and Packwood earned as a dividend would indicate that American capitalism has sunk even lower than they think...