Conoco profits show costs drive corporate earnings
A 1970s analysis of Conoco reveals revenues over 7.6 billion with 5.3 billion spent on operating costs and taxes. Net income stood at 330.9 million, or 4.3 cents per revenue dollar, with 102.4 million in dividends and 228.5 million reinvested. The piece argues profits are really costs of doing business and cites Drucker on social responsibility and job growth forecasts.
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U.S
Continental Oil Company
Conoco
Peter Drucker
Claremont Graduate School
Drucker
U.S. Department of Labor
Ford Dole-Miller parallel taints ticket choice
The piece argues President Ford passed over stronger options for Vice President, highlighting Dole as a weak pick despite regional balance. It compares the Dole-Miller selection to past tickets, questions impact on unity, and notes alternatives like Anne Armstrong, Ruckelshaus, Baker, Ray, or Bond could have broadened appeal without widening gaps.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times
Kansas City, Mo
Ford
William E. Miller
Spiro T. Agnew
Dole-Miller
Bob Dole
Gerald Ford
Mr. Ford
Ronald Reagan
Arthur Bryant
Reagan
California
Texas
Florida
Anne Armstrong
Great Britain
Jimmy
Republican Party
Dwight Eisenhower
Carter
William D. Ruckelshaus
Indiana
Watergate
Howard Baker
South
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Robert Ray
Iowa
Christopher Bond
Missouri
Midwest
East
Ole
Kissinger plot foiled in Costa Rica by U.S. Costa Rican authorities
Secret testimony and interviews tie Cuban exile Orlando Bosch Avila to a planned Kissinger assassination during a Costa Rica visit last February. FBI Secret Service alerted, Bosch arrested on a false passport four days before Kissinger arrived. later released, Bosch remains at large in Latin America. Also mentions Jimmy Carter critique of GOP post in Johnson's Treasury posts.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Henry Kissinger
Costa Rica
U.S
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Orlando Bosch Avila
Kissinger
Bosch
FBI
Secret Service
Tion
Miami
Castro
Carlos Rivero Collado
Cuba
Rivero
Havana
Rivera
Venezuela
Curacao
Florida
Dade County Public Safety Department
Latin America
Thomas Lynch
Secretary of State
Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Don John
Religion and United States presidents
Paul Harvey surveys how Presidents from Washington to Ford balanced faith and politics. He notes many leaders kept religion private until after office, cites Lincoln as possibly the most religious, and recalls statements by Jefferson Adams McKinley Hayes Buchanan Harrison Johnson Eisenhower Truman Wilson and others showing prayer and belief amid national crises.
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United States
George Washington
Gerald Ford
John F. Kennedy
Josephine Walker
Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew Jackson
White House
Jackson
James Buchanan
Franklin Pierce
Benjamin Harrison
Lyndon Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Life Magazine
Woodrow Wilson
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Cuban Action
Ohnson
Richard Nixon
Veterans Administration
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Commerce
Barbara Takei
Lurie
Welcome
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Los Angeles Times
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