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...DIVIDEND PAYMENTS last month rose 3½% over same time last year to $325 million. Commerce Department says that biggest gains were made in chemicals, transportation equipment, utilities, iron and steel. For first eleven months of 1957, dividend payments by publicly reporting firms reached $9.36 billion v. $9.04 billion last year...
...Silberstein, who won only an active ulcer in his attempt to take over Fairbanks, Morse & Co. last May, bad reason for more pain. To help pay off the huge debts contracted in the proxy fight, his Penn-Texas Corp. last week was forced to 1) omit a quarterly dividend on preferred stock, 2) sell a major subsidiary, Industrial Brownhoist Corp. of Bay City, Mich., one of the first companies in the Silberstein empire. An undisclosed buyer picked it up for $3,000,000 in cash-half of what Penn-Texas paid for it in 1954. Other subsidiaries that will probably...
...DIVIDEND PAYMENTS are rising in spite of worry over possible profits squeeze. In first nine months of 1957, cash dividends on New York Stock Exchange stocks hit record $6.4 billion v. $6 billion in same 1956 period. In all, 439 big-board stocks paid higher dividends than before, 430 paid as much, only 103 paid less...
...through a bill authorizing harness racing at Sportsman's Park, it developed that he and his wife had picked up 200 shares of racing-syndicate stock at the insider's price of 10? share. Says Libby: "I wish I'd bought more. I think the last dividend was about...
...last quarter, ending Aug. 31, "was very bad." Wall Street buzzes that the company had to borrow $5,000,000 recently to meet payrolls, that its moviemaking operations are losing $1,000,000 a month, and that Loew's may be forced to pass its usual 25? cash dividend this quarter. Said Millionaire Tomlinson, who sees his $5,000,000 investment in Loew's growing slimmer and slimmer: "I may have made mistakes. But my biggest mistake was to buy into this company...