Word: meatiest
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Last week the stockholders of the Curtis Publishing Co. of Philadelphia (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) cut their Christmas pie-one of the richest, meatiest pies since Little Jack Homer's. They voted themselves a Christmas dividend of $70,000,000 by approving the company's plan to increase the preferred stock from 200,000 to 900,000 shares and to distribute these shares (worth $70,000,000) among the holders of the 900,000 shares of common stock outstanding. This is one of the largest stock dividends ever declared. Its percentage is surpassed only...