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...extra year-end dividend. P. Lorillard Co., still riding high on the sales of Kent cigarettes, voted a 95? extra, bringing dividends to $4 v. $1.95 in 1957. Extra dividends and 2-for-1 stock splits were approved by Pet Milk and Kellogg Co.; growing drug sales gave Chas. Pfizer & Co. stockholders a higher dividend, a year-end extra of 60? and a proposed 2½-for-1split...
...Random House; $3.95) bears the pseudonym Middleton Kiefer on the front, on the back helpfully lifts the disguise: the author is a committee, Harry Middleton and Warren Kiefer, onetime P.R. men for the drug firm Chas. Pfizer & Co. Writing at double strength, they achieve one of the most moving scenes of nobility in defeat since The Song of Roland. Pressagent Joe Logan has corrupted a war hero and seduced his fiancee while boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly...
Accused by FTC of a "dangerous attempt" to create a monopoly in tetracycline and such related drugs as Aureomycin and Terramycin were: American Cyanamid Co., biggest antibiotic maker; Chas. Pfizer & Co., second biggest; Olin Mathieson, Upjohn, Bristol-Myers and its subsidiary, Bristol Laboratories...
MOVE INTO TEXTILES is being considered by fast-growing Chas. Pfizer drug house (1957 sales: $207 million). Pfizer has option to buy Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp.'s division making Vicara, a cashmere-like synthetic that has been a flop so far because it weakens when washed. Before deciding whether to buy, Pfizer will conduct major research to see if Vicara can be improved...
...years Carnation Milk advertised that its product came from contented cows. Last week Chas, Pfizer & Co. disclosed that it has found a way to make all farm animals contented by adding tranquilizers to their feed. Results: steers fed tranquilizers gained weight 12% faster than steers left to worry about life; lambs gained weight up to 28% faster. Pfizer is not yet ready to say that tranquilizers should be generally used by cattle raisers. But tests so far show improved quality with no bad effects...