Exxon Tops Fortune 500 as Biggest U.S. Firm
Fortune’s 1974 list shows Exxon Corp toppling General Motors amid a shift in power from automakers to oil majors. Oil companies led the top ranks as Texaco Mobil Gulf and others climbed while Chrysler Ford and IBM posted varied results. Exxon earned 3.1 billion in net income.
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Fortune
Exxon Corp. I
General Motors
America
Texaco, Inc
Mobil Oil Corp
Standard Oil Co
California
Gulf Oil
A. Oil Corp
Chrysler Corp
Ford
Ternational Business Machines Corp
General Iy
IBM
Pearl Harbor Day Remembered in 1941 Attack Theater
Dec 7 1941 marks the Japanese surprise assault on Pearl Harbor. Navy officials debated signals and warnings as the Arizona and other battleships were crippled, with U S forces fighting back as chaos spread across Oahu.
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Arizona
William Clemons
Wheeler Field
Robert Overstreet
Pearl Harbor Day
Butte Teachers Strike Shrugs Off Classes Amid Picket Lines
Butte public schools will not hold classes as about 10 000 students stay home while 500 teachers, nurses, and clerks picket. The dispute centers on wages and working conditions with proposals on health insurance and seniority, and a second strike this decade looms after impasse declared.
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Butte
School Dist
Tom Carter
Jack Schara
Ky says Americans not to be blamed
Nguyen Cao Ky, former premier of South Vietnam, says the United States is not to blame for South Vietnam's fall. He criticizes Thieu and his government, and comments on U S aid while in Guam. Naval depot supplies Vietnamese evacuee camps with chopsticks as refugees request homeland utensils.
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Guam
United States
South Vietnam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Adm. Morrison
Marianas Islands
Morrison
Thieu
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United States of America
Surrender and Resettlement Reported In Saigon After Collapse
Viet Cong radio quotes urge warships to return to the revolution and promise humane treatment. Saigon broadcasts say a military committee will secure Saigon and restore normalcy with Gen. Tran Van Tra to lead. The regime asks diplomats to hand over assets and seeks UN seat as 80,000 refugees flee on trans Pacific routes. Aboard ships from a 46 vessel fleet, refugees near Subic Bay await arrival.
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Viet Cong
Saigon
Tran van Tra
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Americans adjust dining as inflation shifts habits
Surveys show many plan fewer restaurant visits due to cost while Census data reveals rising sales at U S eating and drinking establishments. Analysts note inflation affects menus and consumer choices, with family spending for meals away from home at about eight dollars per week in 1972-73.
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General Mills, Inc
U.S
National Restaurant Association
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Vets Plan Memorial Day Observance in Butte
William Daley chairs Butte Memorial Day events with Daniel Skipper and Antone Jursnick as leaders. The United Veterans Council and allied groups outline committees for parade, program, monument, and transport as they prepare a May 26 observance with flags on graves and a procession to Veterans Memorial Park led by Judge Arnold Olsen.
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William Daley
Montana Veterans Affairs Division
Butte
Daniel Skipper
United Veterans Council
Antone Jursnick
Disabled American Veterans
Ralph Rand
American Legion
Kathryn Thompson
Viva Hailstone
Dolly Buckman
Edna Summers
June Wilson
Helen Davies
Kathleen Arthur
John Gleeson
Albert Mondelli
Eqepement Transportation
Arlin Veneentes
Mona Fitzpatrick
Henry Pomroy
Bernard Sullivan
Veterans of
Daley
Veterans Memorial Park
South
Wyoming
Arnold Olsen
Snow Warnings Span Montana Mountains Amid May Front
The National Weather Service warned heavy snow in southwestern and southcentral Montana with accumulations of a foot or more by Monday. A Pacific front from Wyoming split the state with Butte at 32 degrees and snow while Broadus hit a record high.
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Associated Press
Mother Nature
Montana
National Weather Service
Wyoming
Bikinis
Bearskins
Butte
Broadus
Catholics pray in Hanoi cathedral on first peace Sunday
About 2 500 Catholics attended early mass at Hanoi Cathedral with 1 000 arriving by 4 30 a m for the first service and others for a 6 a m mass. The North Vietnam church is praised for acceptance and active civilian patriotism amid war and postwar rebuilding.
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Hanoi
North Vietnam
Russian Orthodox Easter Celebrated Amid Official Restrictions
Thousands of Russian believers crowded into more than forty churches for Easter services despite government decree declaring Easter a working day. Processions, incense, and icons filled the churches as worshipers greeted each other with Christ is risen, while Patriarch Pimen urged efforts to strengthen world peace.
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Moscow
Pimen
Area Weather Outlook Snow Through Monday
Heavy snow through Monday with mix of rain or snow Tuesday and continued cool conditions. Today’s outlook shows temperatures around 35 and 28 degrees with a weather map noted on Page 2.
Uptown Burger Crown Cafe Burns in Snowy Sunday Fire
Firemen battled an early Sunday blaze that destroyed the Burger Crown Cafe on Arizona Street. The one story brick building, built in the last five years, was engulfed when crews arrived around 4 30 am and had an inferno-like interior. The restaurant, formerly owned by Claire Boulet and later held by Montana National Bank, contained basement space and was stripped of equipment and furniture. Two fire shifts fought the flames in wet snow. by 7 am the fire was out though mop up continued.
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Burger Crown Cafe
Arizona Streets
Claire Boulet
Lexington
Montana National Bank
Lindew Marnina
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