Word: kodaking
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...unusual number of extra dividends have been declared recently by prominent American corporations. Following the now historic increase of the Steel Corporation common dividend to 6%, the Vacuum Oil Co., Ingersoll-Rand Co., Eastman Kodak Co., U. S. Gypsum Co., Bucyrus Co. and others have also made extra disbursements to stockholders...
Ingersoll-Rand was perhaps the most lavish, declaring an extra cash dividend of $20 and an extra stock dividend of 10%. Vacuum Oil's "extra" amounted to 50 cents a share. United States Gypsum disbursed an extra stock dividend of 20% on its common stock, while Eastman Kodak's extra payment was $1.25 per share. Bucyrus paid 7% extra on its preferred stock...
Married. Miss Mary E. ("Hope") Jampton, cinema actress, 23, to Jules E. Brulatour, 53, general manager of the Eastman Kodak Co., her manager, in Baltimore, August 22. The marriage was made public last week when an official in the Baltimore Marriage License Bureau, seeing the cinema version of The Gold Diggers in which Miss Hampton appears, recognized...
...intriguing oils and bronzes, carried off John Singer Sargent's contribution, Artist Sketching, a small self-portrait in a milieu of forest, valued at $5,000. The Sargent is inconspicuous, but the old masterful brushwork, heritage from Hals and Velasquez, is unmistakably there. George Eastman, the Rochester Kodak man and greatest musical bene- factor of his time, selected Gardner Symons' Winter Twilight. Edsel Ford, heir apparent of Detroit, took Elliott Daingerfield's Autumn Tints. Irving T. Bush, import-export magnate, chose Bill, a bronze by Malvina Hoffman. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, herself a sculptor of first rank, preferred Edward McCartan...
...Eastman Kodak Company also has begun the payment of $1,760,000 as "wage dividends" to its 15,000 employees, in addition to the payment of $4,500,000 dividends to common stockholders. The amount of the "wage dividend " paid each year by the Kodak Company depends upon the extra dividends paid on its common stock. This year the wage dividend amounts to 13% of the annual wages of employees of five or more years' standing...