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...growth at all last year. Fuel costs for many utilities rose faster than state regulatory agencies would let the power companies boost their rates. New issues of stock in utility companies became almost impossible to sell after New York's Consolidated Edison omitted its 45?-per-share dividend for the second quarter of 1974. To raise the capital that it constantly needs to maintain and expand power grids, the industry had to borrow at interest rates as high as 12% on bond issues and bank loans...
...Chrysler reported a shocking $52 million loss in 1974-by far the biggest in its 50-year history. The worst damage hit in the fourth quarter, when the company lost $73.5 million. With more bad news expected this year, the board voted to omit the 350 quarterly dividend-the first time it has had to do so since...
Chrysler is not the only auto company struggling with punctured profits. Earnings at General Motors fell 60% last year, to $950 million, and GM's board voted to reduce the quarterly dividend from 850 to 600. Ford reported profits down 60% in 1974, to $361 million. Thanks to some tax credits, Ford can show a $22 million profit in the fourth quarter; but on a pretax basis the company lost $46 million. Many Wall Street analysts expect the company to report more big losses for the first few months of this year. American Motors managed to clear $13 million...
...library and the museum are in a low stone building set back from the reconstructed village, accessible yet surprisingly in no way insistent or obtrusively out of character. Since highway signs direct one only to "The Hoover Library," the village at the Historic Site comes as a happy dividend and adds a new dimension to the museum aspect of a presidential facility...
...Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City, an estate on Foxhall Road hi Washington. D.C., and an 18,000-acre ranch in Venezuela. There are no firm figures on Rockefeller's cash income. But one estimate, made in 1959 when he became Governor of New York, put his dividend income at $80,000-each week. In 1964 his various investments were believed to return some $5 million a year...