Indictments Hit Major Firms In Busy Trading Week
A Las Vegas grand jury indicted Howard Hughes and four others on nine counts of stock manipulation tied to Hughes 1970 Air West purchase. The SEC charged Occidental Petroleum and chairman Armand Hammer with fraud in two 1971 offerings. Six gypsum board makers face price fixing charges. The Justice Department sued Mid-America Dairymen for monopolistic milk sales in the Midwest. Agriculture reports show middlemen margins up 3.3 percent as farm prices fell 2.2 percent in November.
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Occidental Petroleu
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Watergate figures to be freed pending appeal results
Two Watergate defendants E Howard Hunt and Bernard L Barker will be released from prison next week while appeals proceed. The U S Court of Appeals ordered the releases and withheld action on three other conspirators pending a January 7 parole hearing.
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Senate Watergate Committee
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Textile Jobs Up Pay Down in Southeast
Textile employment rose 1,600 from September to October to 703,000 across the Southeast, but average weekly hours fell to 41.5, dragging hourly earnings to 2.97 dollars. Georgia added 2,600 jobs, while South Carolina led gains with 3,200. North Carolina and Virginia saw declines.
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Market cattle prices and a Rhode Island governor’s death
Front Royal Market listings detail prices for hogs veal lambs and cattle for Dec 27. In Providence, former Rhode Island Governor Christopher Del Sesto 66 dies after two terms as a Republican from 1959 to 1961.
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