Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were plenty of individual exceptions to the general rise. Price-cutting in the "wonder drugs" and heavy criticism of Chloromycetin drove Parke Davis' net down 57% (to $2,200,000), and further inroads on coal's markets by oil and gas drove Pittsburgh Consolidation's net down...
Soapmakers also profited from the state of the commodity market. Colgate's net was up 46%. The chemical industry was also up. Du Pont showed a 14% increase in sales ($440 million) and a 12% increase in profits ($53.9 million) over 1952's first quarter. While the second biggest company, Union Carbide & Carbon, was not far behind (sales up 12% and profits up 10%), some of the biggest gains were rung up by the smaller companies. Thus Mathieson Chemical's $4,700,000 net was a 79% increase, Rohm & Haas...
...companies with gains had sold harder to get it. Westinghouse, for example, had to boost its sales 18% in order to get half that big a rise in its net profit ($16.9 million). But its bigger rival, giant General Electric, boosted sales 39%, to $777.8 million. G.E.'s President Ralph Cordiner was so optimistic that he figured his profits on the assumption that the excess-profits tax will die in June, thus showed a thumping 58% rise in profits ($45.8 million), from $1.01 a share to $1.59. If the tax doesn't die, G.E.'s profit will...
John Rauh's steady strokes and consistent net play were too much for Clark, Bowdoin's top player. Rauh used his deceptive Charlie Ufford controlled hard shots despite the wind to top Jerry Friedlander, 6-2, 6-1. Art French led all the way to beat Bill Nieman...
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