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1. REAGENT; 2. PHOTO; 3. N.F. 4. TEXTILE; 5. TECHNICAL Produced under our exacting production and quality control system . . . in drum and bulk quantities. Have you thought of benzyl alcohol for your product or process? We'd be happy to supply technical data and samples. Mail the coupon today. (
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STAUFFER CHEMICAL COMPANY Benzol Products Dept./Cowles Chemical Div. Menlo Park Office Bldg., Edison, N. J. 08817 Please send me • Data on
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C&EN Indexes Big 7 chemicals Other 21 chemicals Drugs Petroleum Rubber Standard & Poor's 425 Industrials Price/earnings ratio, chemicals Dividend yield, chemicals
Year ago
196.3 383.9 746.7 411.8 543.6 456.2 19.5 3.45%
Month ago
152.6 267.6 773.6 340.2 443.3 409.9 14.6 4.41%
Latest week
156.3 283.9 843.7 329.2 472.5 426.9 15.0 4.31%
Companies that make up the C&EN Index of Stock Prices categories are: • Big 7—Allied Chemical, American Cyanamid, Celanese, Dow, Du Pont, Monsanto, and Union Carbide, o 21 Others—Air Products, Air Reduction, Atlas, Chemetron, Commercial Solvents, Diamond Shamrock, Ethyl, GAF, Grace, Hercules, Inmont, Mallinckrodt, Nalco, National Starch, Pennwalt, Reichhold, Rohm and Haas, Stauffer, Sun Chemical, Witco, and Wyandotte. • Drugs—Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products, Merck, Parke-Davis, Pfizer, RichardsonMerrell, Schering, Smith Kline & French, Sterling, and Upjohn. • Petroleum—Atlantic Richfield, Continental Oil, Gulf Oil, Mobil Oil, Phillips, Shell Oil, Standard Oil (Calif.), Standard Oil (Ind.), Standard Oil (N.J.), Sun Oil, Texaco, and Union Oil of California. • Rubber—Firestone, General Tire, Goodrich, Goodyear, and Uniroyal.
