Word: giffords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guide Tommy Gifford, credit for the outrigger and skipping bait...
Nearly 700,000 stockholders were pleased last week by a letter they received from Walter Sherman Gifford. As president of their American Telephone & Telegraph Co. he was able to tell them that in 1936 their company had earned full dividends on its common stock for the first time in five years. Since 1930 this $5,000,000,000 enterprise has maintained its $9 annual dividend only by dipping freely into surplus. The number of Bell telephones in service dropped from a peak of 15,500,000 in 1930 to 12,700,000 in 1933, earnings from $12.57 per share...
...operations, about two-thirds on local service, one-third on long distance. Other income amounted to $28,864,000, contributed largely by Western Electric Co., the equipment unit. Meantime the number of telephones had climbed back to within 740,000 of the all-time high. The year, wrote President Gifford, had been one of progress "in which the public, the employes and the stockholders all shared...
...Monthly staff is made up of John Hay '39, president, Herschel Berman '38, managing editor, George Haskins '36, graduate editor, Jack L. Saltonstall, Jr. '38, business manager, and Alan S. Gelsmer '38, W. Sherman Gifford, Jr. '39, Sanford R. Gifford, Jr. '38, Norman W. Johnson '38, Alexander P. Saxton '40, and Charles M. Sargeant...
...Just think of it!" crowed President Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel fortnight ago after announcing his company's 1936 profits. "We earned a net of $13,901,000 last year against $4,291,000 in 1935, and started 1937 with $123,690,000 of unfilled orders on our books. We have never faced anything like so good a situation in peace times. Why, we started the extraordinary year of 1929 with only $86,000,000 of unfilled orders on our books...