Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week from Government banksters in Washington came a cry that Continental Illinois is undercapitalized. Its common, which was increased by stock dividends as the preferred was retired in 1936-38, stands at $50,000,000 (its surplus is $20,000,000). This amounts not to the traditional 10% but to only 4.1% of deposits. However, Continental Illinois has nearly as much cash and governments ($1,111,078,283) as deposits ($1,212,371,248) and was as solvent as could be. Onetime RFC Employe Cummings was in a position to tell Boss Jones to go whistle...
...point of condemning their property for a handsome $149,000,000. But last week the 25,000 underlier stockholders got $31,973,597 worth of bonds bearing 3% interest ($959,207 a year) and another 3% if it is earned. The underliers also got $12,300,000 of preferred stock...
...contrast common stockholders (the management sold its employes 64% of its own stock) got 719,926 snares of new common and a promise of a $1 "catchup" dividend, if earned. Their total original investment was about...
...When Bethlehem Steel, No. 1 U. S. war baby, reported nine-months earnings of $1.89 a share, as against a $1.26 deficit last year, its stock fell two points. Last week it sold at 85, down 15 points from its war-boom high...
...last week's end sales since Jan. 1 on the New York Stock Exchange averaged only 896,517 shares a day compared to 983,577 shares in dull 1938. And the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrials, which stood at 155.92 when the third-quarter earnings reports began to hit the financial pages, hovered around 151-about the non-boom level...