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...troublesome "A" stock-by exchanging each share of "A" for ¼ share of a new 5% $50 cumulative preferred plus 1.8 shares of common, or (if "A" stockholders prefer) for ½ share of new preferred and 1/5 of a share of common. To "A" stockholders it meant an assured dividend and preferred position in liquidation (neither of which they had before), plus a higher conversion price, greater voting power. To holders of Atlas 6% preferred it meant a share for share exchange for Curtiss-Wright's new 5% preferred with a bonus of ¼ share of Curtiss-Wright common...
...Family" (for Tender Leaf Tea), Standard Brands ran up record net sales of $122,517,121. But even in briefly booming 1937, Standard Brands' net profit was only 73? a share compared with 1930's $1.22. And Mrs. O'Brien's dividend income (from 300,000 shares of common) had come down from...
...trade boom at first got ahead of stock prices. But in November nearly all sectors of the market in Rome began a steady rise. This slacked off last week because the great Italian textile trust Snia Viscosa, known to have fat profiteering spoils, declared only its ordinary dividend. The State was said to be "persuading" all Italy's great corporations to carry war profits as "reserves"-with likelihood that the State may later take most of these by a special tax. Bouncingest Italian war baby stocks are mercury shares which have trebled since September...
...American-Hawaiian let out two ships on charter to trie Orient to pick up tin and rubber, strategic materials for which British bottoms are no longer available. At year's end the line declared an extra 50? dividend...
This time a different majority (Republicans Healy and Mathews dissenting) drew a moral from too much fixed charge financing by the railroads; admitted that Consumers would undoubtedly be able to meet the proposed interest and dividend bill; nevertheless pointed out that bond instead of common stock financing would aggravate Consumers' unfavorable comparison with other top-notch operating units.* Finding equity financing feasible, the majority decision disallowed the $10,000,000 of new debt financing. But the Commission emphasized that it wasn't telling Consumers it had to sell its common to Otis or any one else, in fact...