Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole, working men were better housed and better clothed than their comrades in England. During his many visits to industrial centres he had frequently inquired how the well-being of the wage-earner had been achieved. He always received one answer: "Well, we 'believe in keeping a big share of the home market for our own people." Turning to J. R. Clynes, Lord Privy Seal, he urged the Government to take care of the working people and to see if there were not something which it could learn from...
...expressed skepticism when the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. raised the dividend rate on its common stock to $9 were confuted by the Company's earnings for 1923. The annual report of the Company shows net income of $81,692,181 after charges and federal taxes, or $11.35 a share on the $719,964,600 average amount of stock outstanding in 1923. This compares with net income of $66,170,428 or $11.14 a-share on the $594,009,500 average amount of stock the year before. Current surplus last year was $15,417,793, against...
Juan J. Tomadelli, of Buenos Aires, purporting to be an eminent electrical engineer, sold stock in his "Electronic Corporation" at $100 a share. He claimed to have invented, in his laboratory at Buenos Aires, a lamp which, by withdrawing energy from the air and bombarding a substance composed of sea salt, tin, copper, asphalt and paraffin, burned continuously for seven months, needed no recharging, and would have burned on till the substance disintegrated, had the laboratory not been destroyed by lightning. Suit was brought against him in the New York State Supreme Court. Many of his statements were proved false...
...very well by itself. Net sales were about $33,000,000 greater than in 1922, though expense, depreciation, etc., grew almost as much; the result was that net earning last year were $20,307,804, compared with $20,043,957 the year before, and $23.60 per share as against...
...common stock, consisting of 750,000 shares, has been paying a $10 dividend during the past year. A special meeting of stockholders has been called for April 1 to consider increasing the company's capital stock from the present 750,000 shares of $100 par to 2,500,000 shares of no par value. The plan is to issue 2% new shares for every old share, making 1,875,000 shares outstanding, with 625,000 shares available for future issuance. At the new dividend rate, this would mean that each new share would receive $4 a year...