The farm chemical industry has yearly sales of about $4 billion.
The industry's yearly sales had more than tripled from 1979 to 1987, when they reached a peak of $1.8 billion.
Timken's most recently reported yearly sales were more than $1.7 billion, and the company has 17,000 employees.
Since then, the business has expanded greatly, building to nearly $1 million in yearly sales.
During the Roaring '20s, his company generated $2 million in yearly sales, worth 10 times that amount today.
More than 22 million people took the drug in the last eight years worldwide, and yearly sales exceed $2 billion, he said.
Now he is building a major industrial enterprise that will soon be near $1 billion mark in yearly sales.
In all, his enterprises are estimated to have yearly sales of more than $1 billion.
Only about 35 drugs in the pharmaceutical industry have yearly sales higher than that.
By 1961, the company operated 565 stores with total yearly sales of $291 million.