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...more than 500 U. S. corporations last week received and cashed dividend checks totaling more than $500,000,000 as their income for the first quarter of the year. More than 30 companies also declared extra dividends, notably American Safety Razor, Childs (restaurants), Coca-Cola, Pere Marquette R.R., Midland Steel, Humble Oil & Gas, St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R.R., United Fruit, Singer Sewing Machine. The largest extra dividend-$60 a share-was paid by a relatively obscure concern, Pratt & Whitney, manufacturers of aircraft...
...Some of these crises were panics. "We men of the Congress have prevented such crises; we invented a new financial tool. ... In England last week Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, great institution, and onetime (1915-16) Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain, marveled at our device; suggested that a modification of it be applied to British banking. . . ." The twelve Federal Reserve Banks,* whose charters the Congress last week voted to extend indefinitely beyond 1934, are banks of discount. Member banks-and all national banks must be members of the Federal Reserve...
Record Low. For the first time in the 81-year long history of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway its directors declared a dividend of only 1½% last week. Cause: disastrous industrial depression resulting from the British coal strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29). Midnight Visitor. At a maternity hospital in London's slummy East End the lights were snapped on suddenly one midnight last week, and 48 recent mothers blinked sleepy, startled eyes. Then they huddled bed clothes around themselves, sat up and simpered at Edward of Wales. He, restless, hurried on to visit half a dozen...
...Midland Bank...
...Plus Viscount Inchcape, Chairman, P. & O. Navigation Co. ; Henry Bell, Director Lloyd's Bank, Ltd. ; Sir Josiah Stamp, President, London Midland and Scottish Ry. ; Lionel Nathan de Rothschild of N. M. Rothschild & Sons; and 36 other equally potent financiers...