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Socony Mobil paid an extra 50? a share; Texaco gave stockholders an unexpected $1.10 a share, in addition upped the usual quarterly dividend from 75? to 90? ; U.S. Steel tacked an additional 15? onto its regular quarterly payment of 50?; I.B.M. declared a 2.5% stock dividend; Deere & Co. upped its dividend...
...subsidiaries employ some 28,000 people. Its net income in the first nine months of 1955 was a record $36 million, $6.67 a share, compared with last year's $26 million and $5.25 a share on the smaller amount of stock then outstanding. Inland, which has paid dividends every year of its life except one (1933) last week declared a year-end dividend of $1.75 a common share, bringing 1955 payments to $4.25, or 50? more than...
...Paramount, using the pressure of his column to line up good acts at a nominal cost. Ed did the same and earned $3,750 for a one-week stand. He was always available as a master of ceremonies for charity benefits, and this practice paid its first dividend when the News had Ed take over the job of running its annual Harvest Moon Ball...
...playing the stock market, Casey called a clubhouse meeting. Looking furtively over his shoulder, he whispered that he Was going to give them a great tip on the market. "Buy Pennsylvania Railroad stock," he hissed. Then he roared into the snapper: "Because they're going to declare a dividend when you bums start getting shipped out of here...
...biggest boosts came from Sears, Roebuck & Co. On the last day of trading, Sears's directors announced a three-for-one stock split and a dividend boost; in seven minutes Sears stock shot up 6½ points to 117, nearly 43 points above the year's low. In chemicals, stockholders approved a merger between Lion Oil Co. and Monsanto Chemical Co., sent the big chemical company up 2¼ points to 50 ⅜ In autos, giant General Motors jumped | of a point to 143⅞ when its stockholders put final approval on the-three-for-one stock split...