The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-25
MORE PAINTS,
CLASS SOLD IN
CITY DISTRICT
Warehouse Manager for
Pittsburgh Company
Cites Increase.

Cites Increase.
Sales of paints and glass in this
territory showed substantial gains
beginning in May and continuing
through to the beginning of the
winter months. Increased volume
is anticipated in the coming months.
according to P. G.. King, manager
of the local warehouse of the Pitts
burgh Plate Glass Company, on
leaving to attend the company'S
district sales meeting, to open in
Pittsburgh, Pa, Wednesday.
Business forecasts for spring
generally are encouraging, although
there are a few dark spots and re-
ports from some sections of the
country that are far from satisfac-
tory" Mr.. King said. Surveys in
dictate that we should reach higher
sales quotas than last year. Our
sales program is being backed up by
more intensive advertising efforts" /
Gains in the business during the
past summer and fall came from
increase in demand from the follow
ing sources:
The automobile industry for safety
glass for new cars and replacement
of plain glass with safety glass in
old cars; lacquers and finishes for
motor cars; from home owners who
reprinted for the first time in sew
eral years; from many different in
duStrieS that use paints and lacquers
in finishing their lines of goods, and
there is quite a gain in the sale of
paint brushes.
Mr.. King continued:
while the building trades have
been quiet, the renovation and
modernization of existing struc-
lures in the aggregate represents a
substantial volume of business.
Prepares for Increase
due to compliance with the pro-
visions of the recovery admins
tration, costs of manufacture have
increased materially. To success
fully meet these new conditions the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company,
through its research and engineer
ing departments, has been reorgan-
lzlng manufacturing routine so as to
comply with governmental require
mentS and still produce more and
better merchandise at profit. For
example, the facilities at the Du-
plate factory at Creighton, Pa, have
been rearranged as to machinery
and increased employment so as to
provide potential production to
cover the expected increase in the
use Of Duplate safety glass.
Again, at Corpus Christi, Tex,
there is nearing completion a large
heavy chemical plant costing several
million dollars, that will supplant
the output of soda ash and caustic
soda at the company's chemical
works at Barberton, O., and Incl
dentally help to increase employ
ment. These and other develop
ments are some indication Of what
we think about the future.
Progress Cited
"Our memories are short, per-
hapS fortunately so. But stop for a
moment! Try to recall conditions
at this time year ago and the
peSsimistS that seemed to prevail on
every hand. A new administration
had been elected to take Office in
the spring. March was the low
point. BY May there was a COM
plete reverse of sentiment. Look
back now at how far we climbed
out of the valley in the few months
that followed.
Aggregate net earnings Of 236
industrial companies which have
reported for the first nine months
of 1888 total $183, 100000, compared
with $17,313000 in the same period
for 1882, according to the standard
Statistics Company Of New York.
These figures are not conclusive,
but show the way the wind Is blow
ing"
Further Gains Expected
"Of course, there Is a long way
yet to climb before any one of us
will admit-even to himself-that
business is yet where we want it to
be. But people generally are opti-
mistic and are encouraged over the
constructive measures which have
been taken and are being taken to
attempt to restore business to solid
foundation.
Many Of these measures admit
tedly are new and are experimental.
Mistakes will be made which will
cause some setbacks. On the whole,
however, there is reason to believe
firmly that the upward movement
will gain momentum during the i'm
mediate months that are before us"
The regional sales meeting at
Pittsburgh is one Of a series of
eight in Milwaukee, Detroit, Kansas
City, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia
and Newark during December and
January.
Attending the Pittsburgh meeting
are P. G. King, H. B. Magee, H. B.
Mendenhall, E A. Aull, K. v. Cope,
G. V. McKnelly, A. D. McKinnon
and F. G.. Turner.
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