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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upsurge in highway and heavy construction more than doubled H. K. Porter's first half 1955 net to $4,000,000 in 1956. Caterpillar Tractor Co. rolled up profits of $26.2 million, 69% above a year ago. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. nearly doubled its net to $12.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Better & Better | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...shipping, American Export Lines profits increased more than tenfold to $3.1 million, thanks largely to increases in cargo volumes, freight rates., postwar Government subsidies. Pennsylvania Railroad's $22.2 million net was its best first half, although high operating expenses caused June returns to slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Better & Better | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

With the high cost of doing business, top sales sometimes were not enough to guarantee top profits. Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. scored a sales record for its first quarter, but earnings slumped 4% to $25.5 million, partially because of higher wages and freight rates. Du Pont's net from chemicals dropped slightly as a result of the belt-tightening in textiles and autos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Better & Better | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Many companies sacrificed profit gains to plow back huge amounts into research and development. Douglas Aircraft, which increased first-half sales by $17.2 million, saw its net drop from last year's by $860,000. Reason: huge research costs for the Douglas DC-8 jet transport. Better off was Cessna Aircraft. Its big spurt in private aircraft sales returned net earnings of $3.83 per share for the nine months ending June 30, up 50% from a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Better & Better | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Last week President Eisenhower urged Congress to take off on the crash program by adding $68 million to the $40 million already appropriated to CAA for fiscal 1957. The extra money would buy more radar, a better ground-to-air communications net, another 80 omnidirectional radio ranges for planes to ride and more trained CAA ground controllers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Crash Program | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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