Insurance magnate tells of $100,000,000 dividends to stockholders. Washington, D.C., Feb. 7. Frederick H. Eckner, Chairman of the Board of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., told the Monopoly Study Committee that the past ten years' average annual dividends represented $100,000,000. He said that he wanted to remove the impression that $20,900,000,000 excess of income over expenditures of 308 reserve life insurance companies between 1918 and 1937 represented profit, 2-7-39