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Show BONUS DISTRIBUTED. The Du Pont company declared dividends divi-dends large enough to brine joy and gladness to the hearts of the stock-holders stock-holders and incidentally to call attention atten-tion to the fact that the war munitions muni-tions business is flourishing and that some of the profits are being scattered instead of being allowed to pile up a, surplus to be controlled by a few insider. in-sider. The Du Pont, dividends were 6 marie payable " per rent in ''ash and IP per cent in rVnglo-FreilCh war bonds at 95. The Dn Pont company invested invest-ed heavily in these bonds at the lime thev were issued, very prnbahlv for the use to which the are being put. Am th' . are gilt-edged, securities, the stock-holders stock-holders have no reason to complain, even though tna ny of them doubtless would have preferred cash. If some of the other companies manufacturing munitions for the belligerents take similar sim-ilar action the Anglo-French bonds will be pretty well distributed during the course of the present year, and it niay be possible for the two great European countries to raise another half bilffbn or even a billion dollars over here without with-out any great effort or loss of time in negotiating with the prominent eastern bankers. |