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...unusual number of extra dividends have been declared recently by prominent American corporations. Following the now historic increase of the Steel Corporation common dividend to 6%, the Vacuum Oil Co., Ingersoll-Rand Co., Eastman Kodak Co., U. S. Gypsum Co., Bucyrus Co. and others have also made extra disbursements to stockholders...
Ingersoll-Rand was perhaps the most lavish, declaring an extra cash dividend of $20 and an extra stock dividend of 10%. Vacuum Oil's "extra" amounted to 50 cents a share. United States Gypsum disbursed an extra stock dividend of 20% on its common stock, while Eastman Kodak's extra payment was $1.25 per share. Bucyrus paid 7% extra on its preferred stock...
Then came the turn. Late one afternoon, U. S. Steel revealed a fine quarterly statement, declared an extra dividend of ¼. Next morning, by curious coincidence ? if it was a coincidence ? the redoubtable Jesse L. Livermore announced, apropos of nothing in particular, that he had turned bullish, that with agricultural recovery and a Euro pean settlement near at hand profits lay on the buying side, and that next year should be prosperous without becoming a boom. Stock prices soared. Can rose 5? that day, Baldwin 5½, Studebaker 5?, Steel 5?, with lesser advances throughout the list, even among...
...Wall Street into two schools of thought. One declared its belief that the turn had come, and that pessimistic predictions regarding 1924 had been overdone. The other, bearish to begin with, continued in that frame of mind; it viewed with cynical suspicion the remarkable coincidence of the extra Steel dividend, Judge Gary's cheerful prophecies, Broker Livermore's equally cheerful pronouncement, the upward rush in the price of the four present leading speculative stocks...
Beginning with the year 1856 Mr. Martin issued annually a stock sheet showing the high and low quotations with dividends of stocks sold in Boston at the exchange, by auction or by private sale. Beginning with 1860 and running through 1919 Mr. Martin and his successor, Mr. Ruggles, also kept a voluminous set of note books recording the daily high and low of all Boston stocks. Scrap books of newspaper clippings carry the record of dividend transactions back to the year 1864. Mr. Martin's collection also included a complete set of the original stock exchange sheet of the Boston...