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144.8 235.9 723.7 324.8 410.9
Standard & Poor's 425 Industrials 413.1
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C&EN Indexes Big 7 chemicals Other 21 chemicals Drugs Petroleum Rubber Price/earnings ratio, chemicals Dividend yield, chemicals
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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. • 21 Others—Air Products, Air Reduction, Atlas, Cabot, Chemetron, Commercial Solvents, Diamond Shamrock, Ethyl, GAF, Grace, Hercules, Inmont, Mallinckrodt, Nalco, National Starch, Pennwalt, Reichhold, Rohm and Haas, Stauffer, Sun Chemical, and Witco. • Drugs-Abbott Laboratories, American Home Products, Merck, Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Richardson-Merrell, 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. • RubberFirestone, General Tire, Goodrich, Goodyear, and Uniroyal.
Interested? Contact the suppliers of imaginative curiosity clays: BAROID/SPECIALTY PRODUCTS
NATIONAL LEAD
BAROID DIVISION NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY P. 0. BOX 1675, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77001
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