GM Posts Highest Ever Quarterly Profits in Record $909 Million
GM's second quarter earnings rose to a record $909 million, up 173 percent from a year earlier, with daily profits around $10 million after taxes. The result, driven by higher industry sales and overseas recovery, tops past records and cements a long turnaround from the 1970s slump.
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Associated Press
Detroit
General Motors
Chrysler Corp
Ford Motor Co
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American Telephone & Telegraph Co
At&t
United States
Wall Street
Chrysler
Hi Story
Ford
North Carolina South Carolina Weather Outlook With Humid Skies
The national weather service forecasts warm humid conditions for North Carolina with scattered showers and thundershowers through Friday. Highs reach upper 80s to mid 90s with lows in upper 50s to low 70s, while South Carolina remains partly cloudy and warm with 90s in daytime highs and 70s overnight. The extended outlook Saturday through Monday shows continued warm unsettled conditions with scattered storms and highs mainly in the 80s to low 90s.
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National Weather Service
North Carolina
South Carolina
Corolla Residents Win Right to Commute Across Refuge
Washington AP reports that Corolla North Carolina residents gain access rights through Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge after Rep. Walter Jones local officials secured Interior Department action. Exemptions may be allowed case by case. eligibility applies to permanent residents as of January 12, 1972. prior rules limited permits to one round trip daily within set hours and a single vehicle.
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Washington
Corolla
North Carolina
Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Walter Jones
D-N.c
Jones
Interior Department
Interior
Mrs Linder Guilty Of Murder In Florida Slayings
A Charlotte woman Sonia Jacobs Linder was found guilty by a circuit court jury in Fort Lauderdale on two counts of first degree murder and kidnapping for the February shootings that killed Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Phillip Black and Ontario Constable Donald Irwin. Two others have been convicted or pleaded guilty in the case. The jury will consider a recommended sentence but the judge may override it.
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Black
Pompano Beach
Rhodes
North Carolina candidates back zero budget and sunset law
A Common Cause survey of gubernatorial hopefuls in North Carolina shows most Democrats and Republicans favor zero based budgeting and a sunset law. Candidates Hunt Strickland Wood Flaherty and Alexander support both ideas while Privette did not submit in time. They also largely back ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Raleigh
Common Cause
North Carolina
U.S
Coy Privette
Citizens Lobbying Organization
Jim Hunt
Thomas Strickland
George Wood
David Flaherty
Jake Alexander
Hunt
O’herron
Strickland
Wood
Flaherty
Alexander
O' Herron
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