Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reynolds Co. raised the price of its cigarettes-Camels will cost an extra cent a pack-and other major tobacco companies followed. Some textile prices had risen as much as 22%.* Emerson and Du Mont announced higher prices for their television sets. Rubber climbed upward and tire manufacturers increased their prices 5% to 12½%. Gasoline was up 2? a gallon...
...Ordered the RFC to step up production of synthetic rubber to at least 675,000 tons a year, a jump of 200,000 tons over current output...
...spent chiefly for rubber, manganese, copper, tin, zinc, aluminum...
...chemicals, oils, rubber, steel, the story was the same. Wilmington's huge Du Pont turned in record sales of $580 million, boosted its net more than a third to an estimated $116 million, including $28 million in dividends from its General Motors .stock. Monsanto Chemical's net rose 64% to $13.1 million. Atlantic Refining Co.'s net shot up from $12.5 million to $17.6 million, General Tire & Rubber's rose an eye-popping 251% to $1,600,000, and Republic Steel, which turned in $25.4 million in the 1949 period, reported a rise to $37.7 million...
...market's character had changed. Stocks of companies which seemed most likely to feel the first cutbacks in civilian production (notably television) made little headway. The big demand was for shares of aircraft, oil, steel, railroad, rubber and other industries likely to get war orders. The railroads, which had lagged far behind the peacetime market's climb, chalked up a gain of 5.08 points in the Dow-Jones rail average, closed at 59.46, the highest mark since the big post-election break...