Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sleekest railroads in the U. S., Louisville & Nashville (coal, manufactures, fruit and vegetables) this week prepared to pay common shareholders a Christmas bonus of $2, boosting 1940 payments to $6 a share ($5 in 1939). Principal beneficiary: volatile, reduced Atlantic Coast Line, 51% owner...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. In August 1938 Atchison broke a 38-year precedent by failing to pay a preferred dividend. Last fortnight its common made the news. To the surprise of Wall Street dopesters who had expected nothing from its nine month's profits of only 11? a share, Atchison declared its first common dividend ($1) since 1937. Conservative Atchison directors never pay common dividends unless business is good. The dividend was taken as a sign of better times...
...dollar plunked down on grocery counters for potatoes, farmers get 47?, for apples 33?, for dairy products 46?, for corn flakes 20?, for soda crackers 8?. Of each dollar spent for food a quarter of a century ago, the farmer received 52 to 60?; in recent years his share seldom has exceeded...
Richard Loomis mainstay of the Winthrop House line, was a strong contender for top honors receiving a large share of the vote cast for the center spot. The other positions were all hotly-contested...
...final development would be for the Harvard O. C. to become a member of the Intercollegiate O. C. Association. Its members could then share in and enjoy such rousing good fellow-good fun occasions as the March Moosilauke winter weekend, or the fall weekend around Lake Placid...