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...quarterly dividend. This will boost dividends so far this year to $7.75, v. $5.25 for all of 1949. When the New York Stock Exchange rang the gong to open trading the next morning, Chrysler stock shot up 3½ points to 71¼, giving the entire market a fillip. At week's end, investors got more good news: the Senate shelved action on an excess profits tax until next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Stock | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...However, the immediate significance of Hainan's fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles to the northeast, in Formosa, invasion day for Nationalist China's last citadel seemed closer. As a victory fillip, the Peking radio reported that Russian newsreel cameramen were filming Lin Piao's conquest of Hainan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hainan falls | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...continues to be the industry with the most dynamic outlook for 1950." Most Wall Streeters seemed to think so too. Day after day last week, television stocks, which have been leading the advancing bull market, skittered up on the New York Stock Exchange, giving the whole list a fillip. Emerson Radio & Phonograph, which had been as low as 15 only 4½ months ago, soared 4⅝ points to 26⅞. Admiral Corp., which jumped from 18 to 29¼ a few months ago and then split its stock two for one, was back up to 23½ again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Parade | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...back up the threat, the well-controlled convention authorized the U.E. bosses to withhold membership payments from C.I.O. headquarters if Murray rejected the obviously unacceptable demands. As an added fillip, it approved a resolution indirectly accusing Murray's steelworkers of selling out labor by accepting the recommendations of President Truman's steel fact-finding board and abandoning first-round wage demands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grounds for Divorce | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...abuilding. Among the 59 new fighter and commercial planes were the world's first jet transport plane, the first turbo-prop (turbine-driven propeller) transport, and other turbo-prop transports ranging from feeder planes to ocean hopping giants. As an added fillip, there was the Brabazon, the world's largest land transport plane, which had been test-hopped only a fortnight ago. Crowed the London Times: "Already America has had to buy British jet engines; in the not far distant future, it may have to buy air frames as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: New Stars in the Sky | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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