Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...unoccupied France. Reason: her vote was needed on a plan to erase $40.75 back dividends on the 7% preferred by issuing 1.4 shares of new $5 preferred for one old 7%. It went through. Last fortnight directors declared their first dividend since 1938: $1.25 on the new preferred. Third-quarter profits were $1,989,000, over 70% of total 1939 profit...
...smaller producers of billets, bars, hot and cold rolled strip steel is Sharon. But with war demand delaying deliveries from the big producers, much business has gone to the little fellows. Sharon's third-quarter profits were $366,000 ($59,000 loss last year...
...Camped near the mouth of many an industrial bottleneck is Worthington Pump & Machinery. Making steam, gas and Diesel engines, an endless variety of pumps, compressors, rock drills and turbines, Worthington must deliver before many defense construction jobs can start. Third-quarter profits were $465,000, v. $360,000 last year. With six months' unfilled orders on the books, 1940 will be its fattest year since...
...Economy Harry's" 35 were a tough assignment for underwriters. No sooner had they taken it than it got tougher: the "Big Five" insurance companies (Metropolitan, Prudential, New York Life, Equitable, Mutual Life), who had wanted a 3% yield, boycotted the issue. Hence, instead of selling one-third or half the issue with five phone calls, underwriters had to sell to hundreds of small insurance companies, thousands of banks and private investors...
...announcing that "Italy-a wants-a peace-a. Italy-a wants-a cooperation-a anda understanding-a amonga all-a the nations-a of the world-a." The second is Mussolini standing on a speaker's platform puffing, pouting and pleased over the cheers of his people. The third reproduces one of the most tragic and dramatic moments in modern history-Haile Selassie pleading for aid before the League of Nations to the whistles and catcalls of the Italian delegation...