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...executive, a brakeman's son who became a telegrapher at 16, the East's youngest rail president (Jersey Central) at 43 and Western Union boss from 1933 to 1941, then took over the woebegone B. & O., after eleven years as president declared the road's first dividend in three decades and shortly moved up to the chairmanship; of a heart attack; in Baltimore...
...trouble with the dividend-distribution plan is that Du Pont stockholders would have to pay hefty income taxes on the distributed stock, would also suffer a decline in the value of their Du Pont stock because of the divestiture. Since many are in higher-income brackets, the taxes would average out at an estimated 55% to 60% a share. President Greenewalt guesses that about half the distributed G.M. stock would have to be sold to pay taxes...
Under Kirby, the Murchisons charge, Alleghany's vast potential was largely negated by stagnant investment policy. The brothers have promised to split I.D.S. stock, which is currently selling at about $280, by perhaps 10 for 1, and to increase I.D.S.'s $1.25 quarterly dividend. Above all, they hope to rechannel Alleghany's investments into growth industries...
...Repeal of the individual deduction of the first $50 in dividend income, and of the 4% credit on dividend income over $50 (estimated revenue increase: $450 million...
Reagan argued that the Federal Government was running "more than 19,000 businesses covering 47 lines of activity-from rum distilling to the manufacture of surgical equipment. Operating tax free, dividend free and rent free in direct competition with its own citizens, the Government loses billions each year in the businesses." Once in business, Reagan noted, the Government is reluctant to get out: "Congress ordered the liquidation of the Spruce Products Corp. in 1920, but 30 years later it was still in existence. The corporation was founded in World War I to find spruce wood for airplane frames...