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...most active blue-chip stocks in the bull market has been General Motors. Its phenomenal 1949 earnings ($14.65 per share) and dividend ($8), plus a good first quarter in 1950, plus the news of G.M.'s five-year contract with the U.A.W., sent it to a 21-year high of 90¾ last week. This week G.M.'s directors took an action which will probably increase the stock's turnover. They proposed that the 43,945,133 shares currently outstanding be split two for one.* If approved by the stockholders, the change would give G.M. the largest...
...sales to a record $1,642,659,449 and a 54% hike in production to 865,756 autos and trucks, a new high for the industry. But since G.M. faces new wage and pension demands from the U.A.W. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), it did not boost its $1.50 quarterly dividend to 433,000 hopeful G.M. stockholders...
...anyone. Last year the Times's advertising linage was at a record high of 36,089,736, and it is still climbing. Since the 50 common-stockholders and 200 preferred-stockholders join the Sulzbergers in regarding the paper as a public trust, the Times has paid no common dividends for 20 years, used the money for expansion and better news coverage. (It pays an 8% preferred dividend every year...
...profits were off just a shade (from $49.9 million in the 1949 quarter to $49.2 million), its rate of profit on sales had actually risen, from 7.5% to 7.8%. Profits of Bethlehem also dropped (to $25.5 million), but its directors felt confident enough to boost the quarterly dividend from...
...members of the cabinet then put up a total of $1200 with an agreement that if a profit were realized there would be a dividend of $10 for each $100 invested. After the dance the three men contacted Hazel and told him that they wished to leave the money in the treasury for future dances...