Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While John Speculator was grumping over the summer listlessness of the stock and commodity markets last week, John Investor was finding plenty to make him smile. Into his lap dropped $800,000,000 in quarterly and semi-annual dividends and bond interest due on or about July i. Chrysler Corp. paid him 25? per share plus an extra 25?. National Lead paid him $1.25, Eastman Kodak, $1, Montgomery Ward Class A, $1.75, Coca Cola, $1.50. Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Bank added $10 to its regular dividend of $6 while First National Bank was paying its customary...
...American Petroleum Institute's semi-annual convention in Pittsburgh last week Consolidated. Oil's J. E. Dyer key-noted: "The oil industry under the code has made definite, unmistakable progress in the past year." There was still a deal of pother about overproduction but John Investor would have gathered from last week's financial pages that Oil on the whole was doing pretty well...
...from the front page where his President's words are recorded, John Investor got a far different impression. "I have received a disturbing letter from the Administrator for the Petroleum Industry, Hon. Harold L. Ickes, informing me of the continued daily production of oil in excess of the maximum amount determined on by the Administrator," President Roosevelt wrote last week to interested House and Senate committees. "Records of the Bureau of Mines during the first three months of this year show a daily average production of 'illegal' oil of 149,000 barrels. Technically speaking, this...
Administration officials said the housing program should place hundreds of millions of dollars into the effort to resuscitate the mighty construction industry which is gasping under the depression body blows. It will make money available to the home builder and home investor...
Administration officials said the housing program should place hundreds of millions of dollars into the effort to resuscitate the mighty construction industry which is gasping under the depression body blows. It will make money available to the home builder and home investor...