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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...twelve percent is the largest dividend ever paid by the Coop, and the exceptionally high rate is due to a very successful business year, said Cole. The Society has been paying dividends of eight and ten percent for the past fifteen years, except for 1933 and 1934, when the rate was only seven and nine percent...
...letter was written to be read from all pulpits glorifying Hitler and his German troops, if & when the war is won. A further reference is made to the suspension of the official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, and that the Vatican sought and found a "modus vivendi" with all powers except Russia...
...Chateau Chazeron is a hulk of medieval architecture which later sprouted two long gabled wings of the period of Louis XIII (see cut). It has no electricity, no running water, no heat except wood fires. Scrubby terraces lead down to the surrounding fields. In the U between the wings there is a sloping grass lawn from one end of which the castle glares out across the countryside...
...Prime movers: Republic Steel (A), up from 75 to 86 on payment of all its $12 arrearage. Up on dividend expectations were Otis Steel (pfd), from 25 to 32 (arrearage $11 June 15), Pittsburgh Steel's three preferreds, from 33% to 67% (arrearages: $12.50 to $59.50). In everything except confidence 1940 business was making 1929 look small...
...mounting for the telescope is of the two-pier type, but the special nature of the Schmidt-type reflector has made it necessary to include several unusual features. Construction is being super-intended by Mr. Herbert E. Hanson of the observatory staff. Except for the polar axis and counterweights, the mounting is of Dowmetal,--probably the first telescope mounting ever made of this specially light and strong magnesium alloy. The Dow Chemical Company, of Midland, Mich., cooperated in providing the difficult castings necessary for both the telescope tube and mounting...