Word: share
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest quarterly profit in the history of U.S. business. In the first three months of 1950, General Motors Corp. earned $212,387,765 ($4.76 a common share), a 55% increase over 1949's first quarter. The profits, G.M. reported last week, were due to a 28% increase in sales to a record $1,642,659,449 and a 54% hike in production to 865,756 autos and trucks, a new high for the industry. But since G.M. faces new wage and pension demands from the U.A.W. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), it did not boost its $1.50 quarterly dividend...
...market was getting its biggest boost from the reports of fat corporate earnings (see above), even though many stockholders complained that management was hanging on to too much cash and not passing out a big enough share of the profits in dividends. Nevertheless, the profit news itself was so good that the market kept edging up with determination. It closed the week by breaking all previous 1950 high marks for the third time in six days. At 217.03, the Dow-Jones industrial average was the highest it had been since Sept...
...bill are a number of chorus routines, a tumbling team and a trained love bird art. The chorus, advertised as "30 beautiful women," does not live up to its billing either in number or description. The ladies seem bored with the whole affair and succeed in making the audience share their view...
Gifts to the Law School fund have reached the $1,300,000 mark. The Law School is aiming for $1,650,000 by July 1 to pay its share of the costs of the Graduate Center...
...typists share a common plague--scotch-taped, stapled, and unreadable manuscripts. But student patronage would seem to prove that they can read the unreadable and beat the deadlines...