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Sears' sales in 1936 rose to $495,000,000, a 26% increase over the previous year. †Ward's1936 sales were $361,300,000, up 23%. Net profits reported by Sears were $30,660,000, a 43% increase over $21,519,000 reported in 1935. On a percentage basis Ward did even better, lifting its profits 49% from $13,527,000 to $20,199,000. Both companies paid out within an ace of their total earnings in dividends to avoid the undistributed profits tax and both did financing during the fiscal year to obtain new capital...
...Like Sears and Ward in that it sells more products than any one person can name is big Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (gases & organic chemicals, metals & alloys, batteries). Like Sears and Ward, Carbide made more money in 1936 than in any other of its 19 years of corporate existence. Net profits were $36,852,000, a 35% increase over 1935. Noting that prosperity was in Carbide's every pore, President Jesse Jay Ricks last week wrote to 55,705 stockholders: "The quantity of oxygen sold in 1936 exceeded that of any previous year. . . . More motorists bought 'Eveready Prestone...
...their 76,563 acres of cultivated Sumatran and Malayan rubber trees last year yielded 42,185,000 Ib. of caoutchouc, earned $1,943,790 profit, twice the 1935 figure. More interesting to preferred stockholders, who have had no dividends for nine years* was the parent company's report. Net income for 1936 was $10,172,000, compared with 36,532,000 the year before. But the stockholders can hope for no dividends until U. S. Rubber Co.'s accumulated deficit is wiped out. Even after last year's profit the deficit stood...
...placing the noose about her neck when Fred charges up on a horse and explains that it is all a mistake. What makes the picture a considerably better-than-average adventure is the care taken in production. The sets are superb, the acting good, the direction skillful, and the net effect pleasant. An afternoon at the University is well spent...
...that Aherne signs a peace treaty because of love, and they mark him for a traitor's death. Through the whole movie runs the note of inevitable tragedy ominous events follow each other rapidly--, and the sympathy of the audience is high pitched for the lovers caught in a net of death. At the first run in New York the ending was logical but sad, for Aherne dies. At the University he recovers from his wounds, and this unexpected twist belies all that goes before it, turning the movie into a high-class adventure...