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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 17, 1993                   TAG: 9303170126
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: METRO 
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EAGLE-PICHER INDUSTRIES

Eagle-Picher Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, parent of the Wolverine gaskets plant in Blacksburg, on Tuesday reported $147 million in sales for its first quarter ended Feb. 28, up 9.5 percent from $134.2 million for the first quarter of 1992.

Net income was $6.7 million, or 61 cents per share, up 63 percent from $4.1 million, or 37 cents per share, for the 1992 quarter.

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