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Show PUBLIC INTEREST IN STOCKS WIDENED BY WAR The number of common shareholders share-holders in 50 corporations, with securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has increased from 3,659,644 in 1940 to 3,904,942 in 1945, according to The Exchange monthly publication of the Stock Exchange. In 1929, 2,046,563 persons per-sons held shares in the same corporations. cor-porations. ' The article also notes studies showing that dividend disbursements disburse-ments progressively made up a smaller proportion of the total national na-tional income and that wage payments pay-ments have risen far more sharply. sharp-ly. The publication observes that, while this trend is not to be denied, de-nied, "dividend payments are substantial sub-stantial and compare favorably with the historical record." |