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...Woolworth at 55, May Dept. Stores at 50, Continental Can at 52½, S. H. Kress at 60, Sears Roebuck at 50, United Biscuit at 28. Special pride is taken in National Dairy Products, issued three years ago at 33. The stock has paid a 33⅓-stock dividend, followed by a 100% stock dividend, is now selling at 78. One of the original $33 shares has become worth $624. Brilliant also has been the record of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Goldman Sachs Co.'s own investment trust. Issued last December at 104 its stock opened at 109, split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Million-Dollar Names | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Founded in 1861, the Chicago & Alton claims to have been first to introduce dining and sleeping cars. Its main terminals are Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City. The road was a prosperous dividend-payer for many a year, but after E. H. Harriman purchased it from T. D. Blackstone it grew more mortgages than it could carry. In 1889 it acquired a $45,000,000 mortgage, on which it has steadily paid interest. In 1900 came a $22,000,000 mortgage, held by Farmers Loan & Trust Co., Manhattan, and in 1912 an $18,000,000 mortgage held by United States Mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Road for Sale | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Holders of Erie Railroad first and second preferred stock were last week cheered by the decision of Erie directors to pay a $2 semi-annual dividend. It was the first time that Erie preferred had paid a dividend since 1907. The common has never paid a dividend, but common dividends may soon be declared if Erie's present earnings continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Erie Pays | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...cars follow them. In 1916 he took the Nickel Plate, commonly known as "a streak of rust," and quickly made it a sound and paying railway. In 1927 he was transferred to the Erie (not to be confused with the Wheeling & Lake Erie) and rapidly rehabilitated this over-capitalized dividend-passer. Last week was announced his appointment as president of both the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Pere Marquette, these making the third and fourth Van Sweringen roads of which he has been president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brothers v. Brothers | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Steel Corp. production went from 96% of capacity to 100%; entire industry from 96% to 98%. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, Pittsburgh's famed family steelmaker, declared an extra dividend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Again, Zoom | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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