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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average factory work week in June rose to 40.6 hours, pushing average weekly factory earnings to a new record of $90.54 at mid-June. The rise reflected increased production demands as industrial output hit a new high for the fourth straight month, rising two points to the seasonally adjusted peak of 155% of the 1947-49 average. The rise was spurred by continued increase in output of autos, household durable goods and most types of business equipment...
JOHNS-MANVILLE. The building boom pushed company sales of materials up 17% over last year to a six-month record of $176 million, lifting earnings 71% to $1.80 a share. Said President A. R. Fisher: Earnings and sales were "substantially greater than in any quarter or half-year in the company's history...
ALLIED CHEMICAL. President Glen B. Miller reported that the company's performance in the second quarter was the best on record, with sales up to $203 million from last year's $166 million and profits up nearly 100%, to $1.67 a share...
MONSANTO CHEMICAL. Profits soared 102% for the first half, from 75? a share to $1.51, making the half a record one for both profits and sales (up from $337 million to $414 million...
Most businessmen felt that, barring a really disastrous steel strike, the second half would be as good as the first, and maybe better. Their outlook for all of 1959: a record year for both sales and profits...