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...points in a few hours after the earnings statement was released. Reason: net profit for the six months ended May 31 was $10,042,975 on sales of $459 million; both gross and net were more than double those for the same period a year ago. The quarterly dividend was boosted from 75? to $1, and an extra dividend of $1.50 was declared. Though President Donald Douglas warned that the rest of the year might not be so good, the stock edged up another 1⅞ points by week...
...Dividends kept pace with higher earnings. Corporations distributed about $4 billion in dividends during the first half, up 4% from a year ago, the Commerce Department reported last week. And in June alone, dividend disbursements were $1,250,000,000, 6% higher than last year...
...grey New York Times: NO CHANGE IN POLICY SEEN. Diplomats the world over interpreted the event in the light of their own problems. Said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles: "A new convulsion is under way . . . Inherent weakness is disclosed." British Foreign Under Secretary Anthony Nutting called it "the dividend of our strength." In Bonn, Adenauer's rivals saw Beria's fall giving them an edge in the coming elections. In Yugoslavia, Tito's henchmen saw it as proof "that the Kremlin was introducing Titoism into the satellites." In India, Beria's fall was seen...
...favorite Warner & Co. trick, said the indictment, was to advise customers to buy stocks that were about to declare a dividend, then trade them out when the stock went ex-dividend, without explaining that the price had fallen by the amount of the dividend. Thus the customers broke even in the market but actually lost money because of Warner's commissions...
...point was only $223.65 short of bankruptcy again. It was saved only by the arrival of an $850 check from a Dr. Pfenning of Chicago, who bought the company's first car. In two years the company was so successful it could proudly mail out a 100% dividend...