Business & Finance: Corporations

Last week the following newsworthy corporations made the following news:

Date. Charles Gates Dawes is on record with a flat-footed prediction that Depression will end next May or June. The General would have been on safer ground if, instead of predicting the time, he had—as a pressagent said he would— named the precise date. That date would undoubtedly have been the day that U. S. Steel restores its full preferred dividend.

From 1901, when Steel sprang full-fashioned from the thunderous brow of John Pierpont Morgan the Elder, until 1933, it paid its $7 preferred...

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