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...booming aircraft industry felt the tax bite; Consolidated Vultee's after-tax net dropped from $3,200,000 to $1,700,-ooo, Douglas' from $2,200,000 to $1,500,-ooo. Other notable declines: Libbey-Owens-Ford's nine-month net fell from $22 million to $12.8 million; R.H. Macy's yearly net fell from $6,400,000 to $5,200,-ooo (in spite of a $29 million rise in sales); Western Union's eight-month net dropped from...
Misery Has Company. Cordiner had plenty of company. Many another earnings report made no better reading than his own. Even the "growth" industries, such as chemicals, were taking a licking. Du Font's nine-month net after taxes fell 28% despite a 24% gain in sales; Dow Chemical's third-quarter net fell 25% despite a 33% sales gain. Smaller chemical companies managed to boost their nets...
Valentine's successor was already waiting in the wings. Energetic Eric Johnston had arranged a nine-month leave of absence from his job as chief of the Motion Picture Association of America (with the probability of further leave, if necessary), and put in a requisition for a Government desk close to Charlie Wilson's office in Washington's grubby old State Department building...
Pretty Picture. To nobody's great surprise, the television set makers made one of the prettiest profit pictures. Radio Corp. of America, the biggest U.S. set maker, netted $12.4 million (v. $3.9 million in 1949), and its nine-month total of $33.3 million exceeded any full year in the company's history. Ross Siragusa's mushrooming Admiral Corp. more than tripled its net to $5.2 million for the quarter...
...credit controls, had proved a bonanza for many a supplier. Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., whose rug sales had slumped last year, managed to increase its net an incredible 30-fold from $61,500 to $1.9 million by merely doubling its sales. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., which boosted its nine-month net six-fold to $4 million, declared an extra dividend of 50?. So did American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., biggest in the plumbing fixtures trade. American Radiator's net hit an alltime high of $17.7 million for the first nine months, up 77% from...