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...against $7,443,000 in 1934. This company is most affected by the TVA decision, since about half its operating revenue comes from customers within TVA's reach. As Commonwealth & Southern has a funded debt of nearly $500,000,000 and a preferred dividend which comes to $9,000,000, the company has to make a lot of money before its 174,000 common stockholders get any dividends. The last common payment, in 1932, was held to 15? a share on no less than 33,673,000 shares. The TVA decision depressed Commonwealth & Southern common from a last week...
...Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. never missed a dividend during the Depression, and now when times improve, they declare extra dividends to the people who have staked their money and confidence in the company...
...give employes a cash bonus of $2,300,000 (on present payrolls, about $40 a man). Chrysler sold 843,000 cars to dealers for $516,800,000; sold about one-fourth of all U. S. passenger cars, one-eighth of all U. S. trucks. Chrysler declared a $1 dividend for the first quarter of 1936, compared to 75? for the fourth quarter...
...against a loss of $5,458,000 in 1934. Wool prices rose steadily through the last half of 1935, prevented the big inventory losses which have been a large factor in American Woolen's frequent deficits. American Woolen declared a $1 back-dividend on its preferred, still has a $57 accumulation outstanding...
...inventories were exhausted, the differential ceased to exist. Continental Can, however, probably made about $4.25 in 1935 against $4.02 in 1934. Both can stocks were favorites in the 1935 bull market. At its 1935 top, American was selling at about 25 times probable 1935 earnings and its $5 dividend represented about 3.3% return on the cost of the stock. Continental sold up to about 23 times earnings and its $3 dividend gave the investor approximately 3% on his money. The ballyhoo over canned beer- a novelty which will not really meet its test until the summer of 1936-gave both...