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The article focuses on the financial performance of the U.S. paper industry in 1986. Stocks in the industry had outperformed the market due to improving sales and new market conquest. However, earnings for producer of coated papers had declined by about 12% since some magazines have translated into fewer catalogs. Furthermore, paper companies foreign invasion has created increase in demand in the paper market. INSET: Most improved (p. 205).

The article assesses the stock performance of selected paper companies in the U.S. as of July 15, 1960. These include Champion Paper & Fibre, Crown Zellerbach, and International Paper. Also mentioned are Mead Corp., West Virginia Pulp & Paper, and Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. The volatility of the stock market and the improved outlook for the paper industry following a period of over-capacity and higher wages are discussed.

The article examines the stocks performance of the paper industry in the U.S. as of April 1958. By early April shares of the ten largest paper companies rose 19 percent on average from their 1957 lows. Production for the whole industry during the first quarter averaged out to 88 percent of capacity, about 9 percent below the level of 1957. Mead Corp. chairman Howard E. Whitaker said it appears clear that production capacity is more than ample to meet demand for many months ahead.

The article focuses on the U.S. chemicals industry as of 1969. It looks at the evolution of the industry from a high technology industry to a commodity industry, from a growth industry to a mature industry just as paper and aluminum industries have developed. According to the author, the industry and its executives still have to adapt themselves to the changes. It discusses problems of price instability and overcapacity in the industry that have weighed in on stocks of chemical companies. A chart is presented showing chemical sales as percent of Gross National Product (GNP) and return on equity of the industry from 1949 to 1968.

The article explores the U.S. stock market outlook in 1966. The author believes it is a good time to have some reserve buying power. The author also sees confirmation of his belief that 1966 will see huge changes within the market, hence he suggests an active interest in the stocks with a story. For instance, the author cites the paper industry's problems in 1966 will revolve mainly the question of capacity and demand. Optimism in steel and aluminum sectors is explored.

The article presents information related to old stocks' certificates. Over the past ten years collectors of stocks and bonds-scripophilists, formally, have given new value to some pretty, but otherwise worthless, paper. The factors that generally determine a certificate's value, include its rarity, the company or industry history it represents, its autograph value and the beauty of its engraving. In 1979, collectors smart enough to know a good buy when they saw one could get a Standard Oil of Ohio stock certificate, signed at least once by John D. Rockefeller, the oil magnate for somewhere in the neighborhood of $150.

The article focuses on Westvaco Corp., the $1.5 billion paper-products company controlled by his family for almost a century. Westvaco has never cut its dividend, never taken a big writeoff and never had to make embarrassing postponements on a capital spending program. Its five-year return on equity is 12.7%, vs. an industry average of 9.9%. That doesn't make Westvaco the most profitable company in the business. Paper companies are cyclical. In the most recent downturn, prices for both linerboard and pulp dropped 25%, with devastating effect on earnings.

The article presents an outlook for the stocks of pulp and paper company International Paper (IP). Topics discussed include analysts' view that IP is both a potential asset play and an earnings recovery play, sale of IP to Canadian Pacific Enterprises for 1.1 billion Canadian dollars, and expected substantial uptake in wood products which could add another 2 dollars per share to the company's annual earnings.

The article presents the author's comments on the performance of different companies in the stock market in the U.S. during 1965-1966. According to the author, the acquisition of Charles Bruning Co. two years ago has given the company a strong place in the electrostatic-copying-machine market, and the company's earnings are expected to be 3 dollars per share in 1966. The author says that Bendix Corp.'s earnings can be 6 dollars per share in the year 1966. The author says that the paper industry is expected to perform well in 1966; and Container Corp. is the only one company exclusively in the paper packaging business that has emerged from losses and is now making good profits.

The author presents an analysis of various U.S. stocks as of May 15, 1940. These stocks are cited for their possibilities to yield profit. Some of them include paper company stocks including International Paper and Crown-Zellerbach and low-priced stocks such as Radio Corp. due to the potential development of television.

The article discusses the expansion of paper producer St. Regis Papers headed by chairman Roy King Ferguson during the U.S. economic recession as of November 1, 1958. Topics include brinkmanship, paper consumption, and the growth of the U.S. paper industry. A stock analysis of the company is presented focusing on industrial production, business recovery, and earnings.

The article discusses the stocks of paper producer The Mead Corporation and the tiremaker the United States Rubber Company (U.S. Rubber) as of April 1, 1953. The author focuses on the growth of Mead with attention paid to its common share earnings and sales. Particular focus is given to the diversification in the U.S. Rubber production.

The author suggests a group of excellent convertible preferred stocks as of July 1956. He looks at paper and paper product manufacturer Saint Regis Paper including sales, earnings, and recent acquisitions, and the long-term outlook for the paper industry. Other stocks mentioned include Food Machinery, Richfield Oil, and Hooker Electrochemical. Also included is a table of high-grade convertible industrial preferred stocks which shows the call price, convertible ratio, and yield.

The article reports that stocks are about 40% above trend in the U.S. According to Wharton professor Jeremy J. Siegel, things look more promising for the bond market. The establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913 and the shift to a paper money standard that took place in the 1930s eventually brought systematic inflation, which gnawed away at the value of bondholders' interest and principal. Bonds will never return to the extrapolated pre-1913 trend line. That would require sustained deflation. Not only in the U.S. but almost everywhere in the world, governments are busily trimming deficits while international trade and technology are combining to fight inflation with rising productivity.

The article features Moore Corp., a paper company that prospers as more companies gets bogged down in paperwork. In the last 12 years to 1965, Moore's sales have increased by 160%, from 81 million dollars to over 210 million dollars. Year in, year out, the company's operating profit has been around 19% and its return on equity is about 18%. Over 90% of Moore's business comes from designing and printing business forms.

This article reports that almost $5 trillion of investors' paper wealth has disappeared, a good part in technology stocks, compared with $1 trillion in the 1987 crash. In the two weeks ending September 7, NASDAQ lost 12%. A big reason for the collapse is that much of this inflated valuation was based on accounting smoke and mirrors. Computer network gear manufacturer Cisco Systems Inc.'s business took a dive. As a result the company took a $2.2 billion charge last spring for inventories that it said were obsolete, and asked investors to ignore the write-off, although inventory losses are a normal expense of doing business.

The article focuses on financial instruments. Companies anxious to protect their credit ratings, and unwilling to issue more stock for fear of diluting earnings per share or inviting takeover bids have turned to various financial instruments to lower the cost of raising money. Consider the tax-deductible preferred stocks. The issuing company sets up a subsidiary that spawns a trust for the sole purpose of borrowing funds. These borrowings are then used to buy an entire new issue of the parent company's preferred stock.

The article discusses the U.S. forest products industry as of January 1969 as companies seek to diversify in order to cope with the industry's historical cycles of overcapacity and falling prices. It notes that the industry still ranks low in its five-year return on equity and on invested capital despite a turnaround in 1968 after a bleak 1967. A table is presented on the profitability and growth of forest products companies including Crown Cork & Seal, Boise Cascade and Scott Paper.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "A Matter of Opinion" in the April 15, 1957 issue.

The article offers information on how investors can benefit from using the Value Line Investment Survey when making difficult decisions concerning investments losses. This survey allows investors to choose stocks in a broad field of values which they think suit their personal investment objectives. To provide an overview of the trends in the U.S. stock market, the survey systematically ranks the 1,400 common stocks available in the market based on their performance, market potential and estimated income.

The article discusses the plan of U.S. Office of Alien Property (OAP) Director and Assistant Attorney General Harold I. Baynton to open sealed bids for the purchase of 440,000 shares of common stock of drug company Schering Corp. on March 6, 1952. The company was the second largest holding in the repertory of OAP, outranked by 124 million dollar-worth General Aniline & Film.

Reports on General Development Corp. (GDC). Information about stocks of the company; Report that GDC has placed its time-share mortgages privately in the past; Information about PaineWebber Inc. which will peddle bonds collateralized by time-share mortgages.

The article focuses on the significance of old stock certificates. Early last summer a Florida investment firm asked the stock appraisal firm of R.M. Smythe & Co. to evaluate a number of hall-century-old securities that were held in an estate. Those 20 original shares, ac- counting for stock splits, equaled 160 Textron common stock shares-worth $8,820. Investigators seek out their answers ma 5,000-volume financial reference library at Smythe's offices in New York City's financial district as well as in a monster index card file.

The article discusses the trend in speculative stocks in the U.S. from 1925 to 1926. Reinforced with more or less money and cheap credit, the authors said that speculators have long been buying stocks which are not of the standard investment type. Shares of companies in non-basic industries were reportedly their favorites. It is stated that it was inevitable that such unwarranted, reckless boosting of prices will end even if business/industrial prosperity continues to advance.

The article discusses the vulnerability of Hammermill Paper Co. and acquisition of 10.2 percent of its stock by risk arbitrager Carl C. Icahn, as Icahn's record indicates his parlaying his shares into a board seat, where he agitates for company sale to a third party, either in part or in whole. It discusses why Hammermill is a prime candidate for a takeover, and the offers by paper and wood products producer Champion International and International Paper.

The article presents an analysis of the performance of several stocks listed in the U.S. as December 1, 1954. Topics discussed include average trading volume in the stock market, profits of Dutch companies Unilever and Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, acquisition of a paper mill in Tennessee by British paper company Bowater Paper Corp. Also highlighted are the performance of the stocks of leading airlines and the earning power of the steel industry.

The author presents an analysis of the U.S. stock market as of October 1963. The period is suggested by the author as one which encourages the risk-taker due to few speculative illusions and sound issue interest. The author suggests several stocks including West Virginia Pulp & Paper, Miehle-Goss-Dexter, and Zenith Radio.

Rather than curse the darkness you should buy stock in a candle company, if it has good earnings momentum. Pick up a few shares of ExxonMobil (42, XOM) and you will be less distressed every time OPEC rigs another price hike. Pick up enough shares and you can cover your fuel bills with the dividends. Lots of people spend their lives trying to outguess the market. We can't all succeed at this venture. But we can immunize ourselves to some of the economy's slings and arrows. The concept here is to buy just enough of a few key vendors that you are indifferent to their price gouging. Anyone over the age of 50 ought to have some pharma shares. If you are on statins, go for Pfizer (36, PFE) or Merck (45, MRK). Shares will probably do you a lot more good in your old age than the new Medicare coverage. International Paper (42, IP) is awfully expensive at 65 times trailing earnings. But think of the psychic rewards. Do you ever read magazines? IP makes the paper stock for those renewal cards that flutter into your lap. Merck, trading at half its high of a few years ago, is a bargain because Wall Street is disappointed with the product pipeline.

The article discusses the stock performance of Georgia-Pacific Corp. (G-P), a building materials, chemicals and paper company. Topics covered include the company's earnings, its diversification into chemicals, the challenge posed by substitute panels made from wood pieces to plywood, the budget allotted by G-P Chairman Robert Flowerree to modernize the company's pulp and paper mills, and the company's timber purchasing activity.

The article focuses on U.S. company stocks as of October 15, 1958 in the context of economic growth, bullish stock market and business development trends in the country. The author discusses the stocks of kraft paper maker St. Regis Paper, paperboard containers producer Sealright-Oswego FallsCorp., and tropical fruit trader United Fruit.

This section offers news briefs related to businesses as of June 1961. Shares of Volkswagen Group stocks were traded in May. Scott Paper Co. achieved success in its efforts to diversify into cultural papers. There was an increase in the steel production in Japan, allowing it to possibly oust Great Britain as the fourth placer in world production.

The article offers a look at profitable opportunities in the stock market. The stocks of California Petroleum, General Petroleum and Independent Oil & Gas are presented to have carried higher before the decline, and are expected to do better than others in the next upturn of the oil group. Recapitalization of International Paper is cited to be seen as more favorable following the explanation that the new issuance of seven percent preferred stock is for the purpose of exchange for Riordon bonds.

The article presents an assessment of several U.S. stocks as of December 15, 1924. It attributes speculative attractiveness of International Paper to the company's ownership of developed and undeveloped. It talks about the financial solidness of Central Leather despite large deficits in recent years. It discusses the slump in earnings of automobile maker Wilys-Overland Co. due to summer depression and the disappointing spring market.

The author offers his outlook for the U.S. stock market as of July 1965. He explains why remarks made by Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin were not the cause of the May-June stock market reaction. He discusses the prospects of higher earnings for paper producer Crown Zellerbach and the factors contributing to it. He recommends investors to be a selective buyer as certain stocks are showing signs of bottoming out.

In the article, the author discusses developments in the U.S. stock market as of early September 1964. He claims that the earnings and dividends of various stocks will remain good for the remainder of the year. He examines the performance of such stocks as Chrysler, International Paper, Trans World Airlines and Beckman Instruments.

The article discusses stocks of U.S. companies operating in automobile, paper, and home building industry as of February 15, 1956. It evaluates the stocks of companies including vehicle producer Ford Motor Co., automobile manufacturer General Motors, and paper cups maker Lily Tulip Cup. Topics include share prices, yields, and dividends. Special attention is paid to Ford's shares publicly offered on January 8, and closed-end investment trust Tri-Continental Corp.

The article argues that the future of the newspaper industry is not as grim as some suggest. According to the author, newspapers are the most adept at reporting local news and have the greatest level of trust in the community. The McClatchy deal to purchase Knight Ridder, which will make McClatchy second in circulation to Gannett, is discussed. Some stocks that the author believes trade at a discount to their true value are profiled, including: McClatchy, Lee Enterprises, and Journal Register.

Observes that cyclical stocks are lower than they were after the 1987 crash. Also notes that there are some outstanding buys in airlines, papers and autos. A gap has widened between cyclical and noncyclical stocks; Statistics; Reasons why cyclical stocks did so badly in recent years; Author's preferences among the cyclicals; The deep decline of airline stock; The slumping industry; More.

This article reports on the growth of the great American greed game perpetrated by plaintiff attorneys--lawyers who specialize in suing--who have created a $10-billion-per-year income. Top moneymaker in 1988, was Joseph Dahr Jamail of Houston, Texas. He made most of his $450 million by inducing Texas courts to accept the questionable theory that Pennzoil had a binding contract to buy Getty Oil Co. even though there was nothing on paper. There are 62 other plaintiff attorneys who made above $2 million in both 1987 and 1988. Unlike Wall Streeters, plaintiff attorneys don't have to worry about the stock market's swings. INSET: Brothers in bucks (discusses the group of lawyers in an....

This article reports that most U.S. investors are getting interested into the global securities. Investor William F. Short of Debary, Florida had invested in Glaxo, the British pharmaceutical company with a hot-selling ulcer remedy, through its American Depositary Receipts. Then last December he saw a report in the journal "Forbes," about Glaxo's rising stock price and earnings. He wrote to the journal that he bought the stock about a year and a half ago at the stock about a year and a half ago at 14.75. Today, and for the past year, it has hovered between 12 and 13. The stock price is rising in dollar and falling in pound. Changes in the exchange rate offset a 30% gain in Glaxo stock in the London market, and that left the investor with a slight paper loss in the U.S. market.

The article presents information about Forbes Dart Board Fund. In the summer of 1967, three executives of the periodical Forbes set out to test the concept of random walk theory. The theory claims that you are able to do as well in the stock market by throwing darts as by analyzing balance sheets. Thus was born the famous Forbes Dart Board Fund After several tosses, they wound up with 28 hits and in theory, they put $1,000 into each. From then on, management was strictly passive. The hypothetical $28,000 investment is now worth nearly $132,000, excluding dividends.

The article focuses on the success of Japanese financial services company Orix Corp. in selling life insurance in Japan since autumn 1997. Topics covered include the increased life insurance premium revenues of the company due to its cheaper policies, the approach taken by Yoshihiko Miyauchi, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Orix, when Japan's commercial paper market became off-limits to nonbank financial companies in 1993 and the increase in the stocks of the company since 1997.

The article provides an assessment of the U.S. stock market as of October 1979. Topics covered include the impact of the decision of Goldman Sachs to underwrite its own investment company on the stock market, the implications of the increase in the value of the junk bond paper to 13.5%, and the benefits of investing in the insurance industry, whose net cash income is growing from 10% to 22% per year.

The article focuses on how Mead Corp. has spent millions to expand its position in the paperboard market, but has been unsuccessful so far. Between 1957-1960, Mead bought more than 13 smaller companies making boxes and using paperboard, almost all by an exchange of stock. It discusses the reasons why it has apparently overreached itself, how the box-making business has affected its profit margins, and the tight year it is bracing itself for, with revenues declining by 6.6% as of March 19, 1961.

The article provides an update on stocks of U.S. companies, as of March 1925. It discusses the effect on the International Paper Co. stock of the interests affiliated with electric power development in New York, indications that the peak for new buying in the steel industry has tapered off inspired by the Republic Iron & Steel Co. report on its earnings for the common stock, and the strong and weak points of buying the stocks of steel and bearing manufacturer and supplier Timken Co.

The article discusses the outlook for the stocks of several U.S. companies in 1924. Topics addressed include the prospect of a dividend increase from the railroad company Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, some investors' belief that the buying of oil shares is better than selling, and a favorable outlook for International Paper due to its 1923 earnings. The earnings per share and dividends of motion picture and distribution company Famous Players-Lasky Corp. are also mentioned.

The author offers an outlook on stocks in the U.S. According to him, there has been a growth in stock buying among investors in successful businesses. Meanwhile, he says that the growing trend towards in-plant feeding, increase in demand for paper cups and the growing vending machine, among others, will benefit small or unconventional companies. He believes in judging the market based on the relation between the demand for shares and the supply of them.

The article presents the author's comment concerning stocks that are traded on the U.S. stock exchanges as of June 15, 1959, with attention paid to a graph of stock market index Standard & Poor's "500." Topics include stock market index Dow Jones Industrial Average as well as recommendations on stocks of lamps manufacturer Philips Lamp, electronics company National Cash Register (NCR), and packaging and building company Fibreboard Paper.

The article explores the performance of several stocks as of December 1951. In the past two years, the food stocks have done nothing amid the advances made by the general market and according to the author, it is because of the severe competition and the small margin of profit in the industry. Among those that saw significant advances was paper stocks and among them is the International Paper stock, which is a recommended buy by the author if available around 40.

The article focuses on guaranteed railroad stocks in the U.S. as of 1961. It is said that tenants have been exchanging bonds for the shares in public figures to save on taxes. The possibilities offered by the stocks for conservative investors are discussed. Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago, or PFW&C, as the most important and valuable pieces of railroad property in the world is emphasized.