Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Sorry old man but you slipped up on Chrysler earnings. See p. 54 of TIME, August 28. If Chrysler paid $8 per share, their quarterly dividend should be at least $2. It seems that I have lost money on that basis. I have only received $1, $1.50, $1.50 for the last three dividends on Chrysler stock. Maybe these weren't quarterly dividends but I think so. Even so it's a damn fine corporation...
...issue of TIME dated August 28, under the section concerning Business and Finance, I find as a part of your highly incandescent report on the affairs of the Chrysler Corp. the following statement: "Meanwhile, Chrysler common (currently selling under $80, paying at the rate of $8 a share), yields 10%." How nice. But in the course of my usual search in the back pages of the magazine for reading material among the advertisements, I come across the following notice: "The directors of Chrysler Corporation have declared a dividend of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per share on the outstanding...
...which this crew, long on numbers but short on experience, with plenty of horses but not enough trucks and planes, with their share of guts but not too many guns, was undertaking last week was not just a bilateral frip-frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence...
...there and prepare to do our share...
...Pepsi-Cola Co. When he looked into the books which Mr. Guth had previously kept well hidden, he found a thriving business. For the first nine months of 1938 Pepsi-Cola had turned in a net profit of $2,700,000; its stock was selling at $70 a share (it is now $190). (For the same period Loft lost...