Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize number ended in "9," all lucky tickets ending in "9" received a prize. Since the lottery tickets were divided into 20 parts salable at $14 each, the winnings on a given ticket were often split still further by private clubs whose members held each a still smaller fractional share...
...showing, unlike many another company's, actual retail sales, not factory output) were 37% above the corresponding, most prosperous period of prosperous 1925. Stocks of unsold cars were far lower proportionately than last year. The corporation had declared $248,935,098 in dividends during 1926, including $4 per share extra ("to show our confidence in the future") and had carried 80 millions over into surplus...
...made sensational charges against his brother, Lord Rothermere, who has succeeded him as the great overlord of the British press. Miss Owen charged that Lord Rothermere, as an executor of the Northcliffe estate, virtually sold to himself control of the Daily Mail Trust, in 1922, at four pounds a share, whereas the shares were allegedly worth seven pounds. She asked, as one of the Northcliffe heirs, that this sale be now set aside, a step which would unbalance the whole newspaper structure of England...
...Twenty-four of them I have spent with you, and every one has made me more deeply your debtor. Without you I should not have known myself; I might have missed my work; and should certainly have conceived it in different terms. No living man has had a larger share than you in shaping my ideals and powers. At the first I saw how significant you were to be for me and--though disliking--I set myself early to study you. My comprehension was slow and resisted. Few members of the Faculty have voted against you more times than...
...upon their investments last year, 2.76% in 1921 and 5.74% in 1916. This wage increase will detract from these meagre dividends and repel investors." The decision means that $4,000,000 must be deducted from the Pennsylvania Railroad's profits, that each of its 10,000,000 shares of stock (par value $50) surrenders 40? of his dividends. The Erie's wage tax increases by $650,000, or 37? for each of its 176,000 shares. But then, the Erie Railroad has never paid a common dividend, and in late years no preferred. Leonor Fresnel Loree...