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...given some startling glimpses of specifics. He once mentioned the deduction for interest on home mortgages as one that he might recommend dropping, though he lately has shied away from the subject. And he believes it is unfair to tax corporate profits and then tax the dividends paid out of those profits−so he would either knock out all taxes on dividend income or stop taxing the portion of corporate profits that is paid out in dividends to shareholders...
Generally the institutions are putting their money into the stocks of "smokestack America"-basic-industry companies that have good dividend records and modest P/Es...
...would sell Kfir fighter planes, Reshef patrol boats and other military hardware to South Africa. In return, Israel would receive such strategic materials as coal, chrome, platinum, titanium and-for the world's latest nuclear power (TIME, April 12)-enriched South African uranium. There was also a diplomatic dividend. Largely because of Arab pressure, 29 of the 33 black African countries that once had diplomatic ties with Israel broke them off at the time of the 1973 Middle East war (only Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius and Swaziland retain such ties). South Africa, said one Israeli diplomat, gives his country...
...growing interest of investors in dividends contrasts sharply with the atmosphere of the bull market of the '60s. Professional money managers then concentrated on price appreciation and ignored dividend yields. The star performers of those days-Xerox, Polaroid and other so-called glamor issues-paid little in dividends, yet held out the promise of higher profits and prices in the future. Now the high flyers' wings have been clipped and such laws as the Pension Reform Act of 1974 mandate a new prudence among managers who invest other people's money. Dozens of "index fund" managers...
Last week Canada Southern Railway Co., a Penn Central subsidiary, declared a $60 dividend-larger even than the $41 price of the stock itself-apparently to keep a $9 million cash reserve fund out of the hands of Conrail, the Government corporation that takes over the Penn Central and six other bankrupt railroads on April 1. A company spokesman said the timing of the dividend was coincidental but implied that Conrail was entitled only to the railroad's physical assets and not the cash reserve fund. The payout faces a certain court challenge; Conrail had made it clear that...