Understanding Dividends and Who Receives Them
Dividends are profits returned to stock owners from a company’s earnings. The board of directors decides dividend payments, with owners voting on directors and other matters. In 1955 data, among 1,079 NYSE stocks, 141 paid 6% or more, 201 paid 5–6%, 288 paid 4–5%, 190 paid 3–4%, 95 paid 2–3%, 49 paid under 2%, and 115 paid no dividends.
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Smog Crisis Prompts City Wide Traffic and Fire Alert
Heavy smog blankets downtown Los Angeles triggering emergency measures. County officials ready to deploy 1,200 road barriers if ordered while the sheriff and city departments stand by for action. Mayor Poulson orders police to stop burning and directs APCD cooperation as complaints flood the district.
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Sam R. Kennedy
Herbert ©. Legg
Board of Supervisors
Kenneth Hahn
John Maharg
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Air Pollution Control District
Los Angeles
Norris Poulson
William H. Parker
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Poulson
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200 Mile Metropolis L A Mayor Predicts 200 Mile Metro Area
Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson envisions a 200 mile metropolitan region from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border designated as Los Angeles with a borough style government. The piece notes LA’s population surpassing Detroit and Philadelphia and forecasts overtaking Chicago and New York in coming decades.
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Fire Lines Hold 200 Free Safely
Fire lines hold as 200 free swimmers complete a safe swim event. Officials report smooth execution with no incidents, noting crowd control and lifeguard coverage ensured participant safety throughout the day.
Red Vessels Sunk Nationalists Report
Nationalist air forces reported Chinese fighter bombers from Formosa destroyed at least ten Communist wooden craft off the mainland coast this morning. A communique said reconnaissance planes sighted more than fifty such craft. hundreds of crews fought a blaze at a water site. Separate fire reports across California say the Gen. Grant Grove blaze near Sequoia is largely surrounded with 90 workers remaining, while Haystack fire of 87,000 acres in Klamath National Forest saw about 1,000 of 3,000 firefighters released to tackle two smaller blazes and other fires continued out of control or under patrol by nearly twenty incidents statewide. Weather warnings threatened new outbreaks.
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Quemoy
Grant
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California
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Thas
Mendocing County
Thorn
Wild Titts
Greenlease Bill Found in Philadelphia
The FBI announced the discovery of another of the Greenlease ransom bills at the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia. It is the 26th bill recovered since August 4 and the first in the East. Bills have been found in Chicago St Louis East St Louis Quincy Salt Lake City and Jacksonville. The ransom of 600000 was paid by the parents of 6 year old Bobby Greenlease when he was kidnapped and slain in 1953. Slightly less than half the money has been recovered so far.
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Jacksonville
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Bobby Greenlease
Woman collapses and dies at funeral in San Rafael
Florence M. Salazar, 58, collapsed in the arms of a funeral director Monday while attending the funeral of her brother-in-law John Barr. She apparently suffered a heart attack. Salazar was widow of Marion T. Salazar, sports editor of the old San Francisco Bulletin, and a sibling of Prescott Sullivan, sports columnist for the San Francisco Examiner.
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Florence M. Salazar
John Barr
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Marion T. Salazar
San Francisco Bulletin
Prescott Sullivan
San Francisco Examiner
Sailors Die in Car Fire After Bridge Crash
Two American sailors trapped in a burning sedan died Monday night after the vehicle struck a bridge abutment near Guam. Police identified the victims as Clayton Wolf and Kenneth Foster, both stationed at the Naval Air Station Guam. The Navy withheld further information pending notification of relatives.
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Clayton Wolf
Kenneth Foster
Naval Air Station
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Bonds Found On Accident Victim In Denver
Denver General Hospital officials said nurses found 56000 in government bonds in the pocket of Arthur Barnes 86 after a car struck him at a Denver intersection. Barnes a retired Navy chief quarter master was being prepared for surgery and reportedly lives on a 108 dollar monthly retirement check.
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