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...steel industry who doesn't think operations will be at capacity for the first six months of the year.'' Bethlehem Steel reported a 7% earnings rise to $61.7 million in the fourth quarter of 1956, making it the best in its history, and voted a quarterly dividend of 60? a share on its recently split 4-1 common stock, equivalent to $2.40 a share on the old stock, or 10? less than last year. At year's end the company backlog stood at $1.3 billion (v. $862 million the year before), of which $580 million...
...Wall Street bond dealers the upturn ended, at least temporarily, one of the worst periods in bond-market history. Though bonds have never been an investment favorite because of their fixed interest rates, the big bull market had made them particularly unattractive. As stocks have upped dividend payments, the bond market has gone down...
...Wall Street crash of '29 wrote an invisible "X" across Kreuger's name. Being an uncommon crook, Kreuger did not crumble on Black Thursday. Indeed, he never defaulted on a dividend; but he was in the trap of paying dividends out of capital. He gambled millions in the market himself, and lost. Outwardly calm but inwardly frantic, he became the master forger of the age when, in 1931. in the inner fastnesses of his regal headquarters at the Match Palace in Stockholm, he forged with his own hand $143 million in Italian government bonds. By now, Kreuger...
...Manhattan journalists, jittery over the folding of Collier's and Woman's Home Companion (see below), the news at first seemed a possible cause for concern. McCall Corp., publishers of McCall's and Redbook, announced a 50% cut in its quarterly dividends from 30? to 15?. Though McCall's revenue was up $6,000,000 in the first nine months (to $46,116,539), earnings were down 16% to $758,276. McCall said it was saving cash "to finance future growth." What the company did not say was that the dividend cut was the work...
CORPORATE DIVIDENDS are running far ahead of last year despite rising costs of business, declining profit margins for many companies. Cash dividend payments in the first ten months this year hit $8.7 billion, up 12½ % from...