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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they immediately set off a new duel between management and labor, brought widespread suggestions that the industry consider a cut in steel prices to share its profit performance with the consumer. The companies reported total net income up 140% over the first half of recession 1958, while average earnings per share of the eleven rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Embarrassment of Riches | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

Broken Records. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, who has led the industry's fight against higher wages for steelworkers, reported that Big Steel's profits reached record levels of $2.64 per share in the second quarter v. $1.25 in the same quarter last year, raising half-year earnings 96% to yet another record: $4.50 per share for the half-year v. $2.29 last year. Steel sales for the quarter rose to a record $1.4 billion, hiking first-half sales $1.1 billion above last year to a record $2.5 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Embarrassment of Riches | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...life is just as plain. A man who cannot keep from.working with his hands, he rebuilt a loo-year-old farmhouse from a tumbledown wreck, sanded his own floors, put in plumbing and electricity. On his 80 acres he raises cattle (56 beefy Herefords) and corn (yield: no bu. per acre), enjoys gardening (from Bibb lettuce to small yews) and finishing furniture in his home workshop ("It's the scabbiest workshop you've ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Man on a Lark | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...with the rest of the market?" The answer came last week, as surging oil-company earnings reports gave oil shares their sharpest rise since the easing of the Suez crisis in December 1956. Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) rose 3$ points to 54⅛ as it reported earnings of $1.47 per share, v. $1.22 in the first half last year. Gulf Oil Corp. stock added 6| points during the week to close at 116⅛, after reporting first-half earnings of $4.38 per share, v. $3.57 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Increases for All | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...earnings rise came from a strong demand for oil products that exceeded earlier industry forecasts. With record six-month sales of $621 million, Sinclair Oil Corp. boosted profits to $1.76 per share, v. $1.45 in the first half last year. Second-half prospects, noted Sinclair Chairman P. C. Spencer, are even brighter. Said he: "In July gasoline prices began to strengthen appreciably, and if this trend can be maintained, it is reasonable to expect that the remainder of 1959 should continue to show improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Increases for All | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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