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Rolling happily along with the building boom, Johns-Manville earned more than it ever did before in any second quarter, making $6,531,742 v. $5,435,663 a year ago. National Gypsum broke all first-half earnings records as it made...
LIFE INSURANCE SALES are setting new records in 1955, says the Institute of Life Insurance. First-half sales were 25% ahead of 1954 (six-month total: $23.4 billion) and insurance men predict the same high rate of gain for the rest of the year. Fastest climber: group insurance, up 85% during the first half...
William P. Drake, 42, became president of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co., which produces more than 400 different chemicals, had first-half sales this year at an annual rate of more than $60 million and will soon start on a five-year expansion program. A plain-talking six-footer, Drake played football at Bowdoin College, leaving in 1934 to take a summer trainee job with the company. Drake was carefully groomed for the presidency by the man he succeeds, George B. Beitzel, 61, who will continue as a director, devote most of his time to the company...
Three-quarter movements on both sides characterized first-half play. After 25 minutes, Dartmouth's scoring punch was severely weakened when tackle Bob Richter broke two ribs. No substitutions are allowed in rugby...
...winner will meet Hollis, first-half champ, for the season crown tomorrow night...