Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-23
CORPORATION
REPORTS
TRENDS AND PROSPECTS OF
LEADING ORGANIZATIONS

following Is IOQayS summary u CN.
poration news prepared by Standard
Statistics Co.. Inc. New York:
Consolidated Chemical Industries,
Inc.-Declared an extra dividend Of
1919 cents and regular quarterly divi-
dend Of Sta cents on class A and
class B stock, payable February l..
Cooper-Bessemer Corp. - Company
declared operative its plan of capital
readjustment.
Merritt Chapman & Scott Corp
Company was awarded contract for
construction of first unit Of $1,000, 900
pulp and paper board mill for Con-
tainer Corp. Of America at Fernan-
dina, Fla.
American Smelling & Refining Co.
Company advanced price Of lead 40
points to cents pound, New York.
Warner-Quinlan Co.-Federal Judge
Hubert, New York, fixed February s,
1897, as the date for sale at auction
of this company's 231 service stations
and set an upset price Of $4,l80.750.
Bethlehem Steel Corp, subsidiary
Bethlehem Steel Co.. is reported to
have taken q contract for 47,700 tons
of cast iron and steel tunnel rings for
the midtown New York tunnel under
the Hudson River; over last week
company's total orders we're around
SIS 900 tons.
Tubize Chatillon Corp-It was said
production in company's Rome, Ca,
plant will be increased from 10000
900 to 10000. 900. oC0 pounds Of yarn
annually.
Columbia Broadcastink System, Inc.
Billings of this company in Novem-
Der, 1886, amounted to $2.4s3, 657.
compared with Sl.722,3s0 for Novenl-
Der, 1885. an increase Of Az per cent /;
total billings for 1886 were estimated
at $23.289 900. which would compare
with s17,637 .s04 for 1885.
New England Telephone & Tele-
graph Co.-Company reported a gain
of 42083 telephones for first 10
months OF 1896; in like period of 1895
there was total gain of 1922 tele-
phones.
Public Service Co. of Northern Illi-
nois-November net income was
S417.415. against s245.646; in IL
months net income was $3074,e22,
against s2,869,371.
Radio Corp. of America-Revenue
OF National Broadcasting Co.. sub
sidiary, in November, 1896. was 1875
per cent greater than November. 1885.
Ford Motor Cot was said COM
pany will work three days this week
and possibly four, but will be closed
the remainder of the week because of
the parts shortage; it was stated that
II, 1000 men have been laid on tempo
rarily until sufficient parts are on
hand to resume full-time operations.
American !. G. Chemical Corp
Declared regular annual dividend for
year beginning April /, 1886, in
amount of So on class A common and
20 cents on class B common and extra
dividends Of so cents on class A COM
mon and cents on class B common,
all payable December 20; on May 6,
1886, company paid regular dividend
OF 81 and extra of 81 on class A and
regular of 10 cents and extra Of 10
cents on class B common.
Esler Electric Corp. - Common
share earnings, nine months ended
September 80, were 20 cents, against
IL cents.
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul & Pa
cif1c Railroad-New York fiscal rep
resentative Of company announced
that q court order authorizing trus-
tees of company to pay interest Of
s1,984,085 on its mortgage bonds. The
interest is equivalent to two-thirds
of the semi-annual coupon interest
that fell due on July /, 1886, and two
thirds of the quarterly interest on
general mortgage fully registered
bonds that fell due on July l and Oc-
tober l. 1886.
Northern Pacific Ry.-Directors Of
Northwestern Improvement Co., sub
sidiary. declared regular annual divi-
dend Of $992, 900.