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...charged that Trans Continental shares were being sold by telephone by high-pressure operators, with the claim that the stock would double in 30 to 60 days and that the company had a good profit position and would soon declare a substantial dividend. The truth of the matter, said SEC, is that the company has operated at a loss since 1955. It cannot pay dividends until it pays off $3,000,000 in loans. Furthermore, said SEC, substantial trading in the stock was being conducted by an unnamed "foreign source," which had pushed the stock from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fraud at Continental? | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...Dividends: 25%. Most Deltec issues have paid the average Brazilian dividend or better-10%-25% of par value plus stock splits. Though its expenses are high, Deltec has found the operation profitable. The fees for underwriting a stock issue in Brazil average 15%-20% of the value of the issue (U.S. average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Wall Street in the Jungle | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

President Kimball and his executives make no bones about the fact that all this research comes high. In its 16 years Aerojet has paid only one common-stock dividend. All the rest of the profits go for research in a ratio that holds company expenditures to 30% for production and 70% for research each year. Eventually, probably by 1960 when Titan and Polaris are in production, Aerojet will pay its stockholders regular dividends. But never so much that it cannot lay a big bet on any exciting new field that opens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: G.M. of the Rockets | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Through its in years, the Pennsylvania Railroad has never been successfully challenged by a rebel stockholder or failed to pay an annual cash dividend. Last week both those possibilities cornered the Pennsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Perils of the Railroads | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...year ago." In a crash drive to save money, the line cut its work force by a fifth in the past year, is doing practically no heavy maintenance work. Its cash is "exceedingly low," and its prospects for a profit in 1958 "extremely doubtful." The Pennsy has skipped its dividends for the first two quarters this year. When a stockholder asked if the Pennsy would pay any dividend this year, Symes replied: "I make no promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Perils of the Railroads | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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