Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share of Oscars and some of the biggest money in the business. Last year they parted when Samuel Goldwyn offered Riskin a five-year contract (reportedly worth $1,000,000) as an associate producer. Hollywood guessed that Capra, whose $350,000-a-year contract with Columbia had another year to run, was also...
...rate of earnings, after fixed charges, there was $2.22 available to pay the $3 a share preferred dividend, leaving the common in the red to the tune of 78? per preferred share. In addition Trustee Wardall must decide how to fit 605,964 shares of no par preferred (valued on the books at $30,298,200) and 1,282,938 shares of $5 par common stock into the drug firm's $27,296,031 net worth. So someone must take a licking. SEC will be interested in this reorganization-its first big test of the Chandler...
...late 1920s Founder Arthur J. Morris of the Morris Plan banks and four other members of a syndicate bought 14,550 shares of Industrial Finance Corp. stock from the late Pennsylvania Coalman John Markle. The price was $95 a share. It happened that Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, was under obligation to repurchase that stock at $105. Eventually the syndicate including Arthur Morris and four other directors of Industrial, sold the shares to the corporation, at a profit...
...Government introduced in the House of Commons a bill which will authorize credits of $300,000,000 to Britain's allies. Poland will receive the lion's share of the credits (one estimate had it that the Polish loan would amount to $200,000,000), but Rumania, Turkey, Greece and Egypt are also expected to share. Almost all the money, which will be lent through the Board of Trade, the British equivalent of the U. S. Department of Commerce will be spent in Britain to buy munitions, raw materials, war supplies. About $30,000,000 can be used...
...other: Electric Bond & Share Co.'s Depression (1931) $441,387,724 scale-down...