Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secretary left her desk, he popped his own secretary into her seat. Finally he took out what records had not been carried into the inner office, shortly announced that in eight months Mr. Aken had used up all but $69.50 of the year's appropriation for extra office help...
Last week International Nickel Co. of Canada raised its quarterly dividend from 15? to 20? a share. Irving Air Chute raised its regular dividend from 10? to 15?, declared an extra of 10?. Reporting a sharp increase in half-year profits, Eastman-Kodak voted a 25? extra in addition to a regular dividend of $1.25. But the fattest extra dividend of the week was 50? paid the 14,190 stockholders of Timken Roller Bearing Co. of Canton, Ohio. During the first six months, Timken earned $4,522,000, nearly double the profits for the same period last year...
Chief beneficiaries of the extra dividend, which totaled approximately $1,200,000, are Board Chairman Henry Holiday Timken and his brother, Vice President William R. Timken who, on the basis of their last SEC report on stockholdings will receive nearly $200,000. Timken Roller Bearing is essentially a family business and the Timkens are a tight-lipped family. The company was founded as a carriage works in the last century by Henry Timken, onetime blacksmith. Founder Timken thought carriages dull the moment he began experimenting with cup and cone ball bearings. His enthusiasm infected his two sons when the huge...
...radio experts, she was nevertheless gratified that her family looked impressed even when she told them, in technical language, of howling blunders she had committed. As the Lindberghs started for the frozen North, someone in the Morrow family gave her a handkerchief, saying thoughtfully, "You will probably need an extra one, you know...
...Last week General Motors Corp. was so cheerful about present and future earnings that it upped the quarterly common stock dividend from 25? to 50?, threw in an extra dividend...