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...After deducting some $2,253,000 as the employes' share of first-half earnings, General Electric Co. reported six-month profits of $26,293,000, compared to $16,592,000 in the same period last year. Sales were up from...
About 120,000 non-combatants had been butchered and about 80,000 combatants had fallen in the Spanish Civil War up to last week, when it reached the gory tombstone of its first-half year...
Last week the nation's steelmen stopped glaring at Labor's John Llewellyn Lewis long enough to take a hurried look forward to the future, a hasty glance back at what they had accomplished in the first six months of the fourth year of Recovery. As a whole, the steel industry earned more money than in any first-half period since 1930. It was employing more workers (500,000), paying them more per hour (67?), than in 1929. Individual pay envelopes were not so fat as in the New Era because the work was spread thinner...
During the worst of the Hitler war-fright the market looked as if it might take a bad tumble. Yet by last week it had regained composure, and prices were nearly back to the highs of the previous fortnight. To the first flood news last week the market was impervious, though later when it was realized that first-half earnings would have to be revised downward for the industrials, utilities and railroads affected, quotations began to soften. What the stockmarket will do next is anybody's guess. But what U. S. business will do for the next few months...
...which is expected to lead to agreements. Several companies have already made enough money to pay their 1932 dividends. Mr. Sinclair last week said that in June alone Consolidated earned its 1932 preferred dividends. Most of the big companies do not report except yearly. The following earnings table shows first-half reports thus far issued: (D = deficit...