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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baltimore & Ohio R. R. (poly-colored locomotives, good foods)-$22,623,345. Previous year: $27,609,759. President Daniel Willard offered as explanations: expenses incident to centenary celebration, increased basis of pension payments to retired employes, decline in coal traffic, decline in passenger traffic...
National Lead Co. ("Dutch Boy" white-lead, red-lead)-$4,929,396. Previous year: $9,004,567. Explained Pres. Edward J. Cornish enigmatically: "Serious competition had developed between lead and other metals in lines where lead has for centuries enjoyed deserved prestige, and especially between different pigments used for the same purpose...
Walworth Co. (plumbing fixtures, plumbers' tools)-$384,710. Previous year: $561,908. Explained President Howard Coonley: "The unsatisfactory conditions prevalent in other branches of the steel and iron trade during 1927 have also affected the valve and fitting industry...
American Smelting & Refining Co. (Onetime [1907-13] Senator Simon Guggenheim is president)-$15,477,770. Previous year: $17,760,721. "The showing of earnings is quite satisfactory, in view of the fact that metal prices were lower in 1927 than in 1926, and your company is now a substantial miner of lead, zinc, copper and silver," soothed President Guggenheim...
Corn Products Refining Co. ("Argo" and "Duryea" starch, "Karo" corn syrup, "Mazola" salad & cooking oil)-$11,905,289. Previous year...