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...minted nickels. Last week the auto industry produced 102,098 cars and trucks, more than in any week since mid-1941. The steel industry, roaring along at 94.1% of capacity, was turning out far more steel than in any peacetime year. Many a prosperous company upped its-dividend, e.g., Du Pont from $1.25 to $2 and International Harvester from 65? to $1. Despite the worst freight-car shortage in 20 years, Barren's latest Weekly Production Index held at 117, within one point of the postwar peak...
Last week their Tribune was ten years old. None of its founders had ever seen a dividend check, but they counted their money and time well spent. The little (circ. 20,000) journal had gradually won a place of influence in British politics and journalism out of all proportion to its circulation or bank balance. Though it ranked well below the Economist or the New Statesman, the Tribune was must reading in Fleet Street and the Ministries...
...their paneled board room on the 13th floor of Los Angeles' Pacific Finance Building, the directors of California's Consolidated Steel Corp. gathered last week. After they had settled themselves in their cushioned leather chairs, President Alden Gallup Roach brought up routine business; a 25? common dividend was declared...
Twelve U.S. newsmen who junketed south last week to publicize L.A.V.'s (Linea Aeropostal Venezolano) new Constellation service from New York to Caracas got an extra dividend. They saw the tail end of a real (if short-lived) South American revolt, complete with bombs and bullets...
...Hopkins Joyce was mixed up in it. Reporter Charnay flagged his office and went after it. Rewrite Man Henry Lee got busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave 2,400,000 tabloid readers their full 2? worth. (Same day, the U.N. site story rated a paragraph in the News...