Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1915 — Aetna Company Lands $6,000,000 War Contract. [ARTICLE]

Aetna Company Lands $6,000,000 War Contract.

Lake County Times: The Canadian Car and Foundry company will purchase $6,000,000 of explosives from the Aetna Explosive company, the deal having just been closed. The purchase will be financed by the Canadian company, which will make an initial payment of near SBOO,OOO, which will probably be made this week. The new order brings the total business for the Aetna, which has its parent plant at Aetna on the eastern Gary limits, up to over $36,000,000, mainly for picric acid, smokeeiss powder and gun cotton. There* is an estimated profit of over 60 per cetn in this new order, notwithstanding high prices of chemicals and other materials.