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...Keep each other company," she said "Oh, we've got the Baptist Bible Institute and the world's largest peanut sheller. But there's nowhere to go, and nothing to do. If you want to see a picture show, you have to go over to Crestview or up to Dothan. The boys and girls don't stay here anymore after they grow up. It sure would be better if we still had the Oilers...
...city of Saigon's labor force of 330,000, fully 250,000 are women. They work as construction hands, substitute for men in manpower-short professions, own or run most of the capital's jewelry, clothing and tailoring shops, its restaurants and bars and some of its largest businesses. Nguyen Duy Thu Luong, for example, owns pharmaceutical laboratories, directs the Nam Do bank and runs the Park Hotel, where U.S. military briefings are held. Huynh Thi Nga, 25, runs the family-owned Saigon Motors, and is an expert mechanic...
Within the past year and a half, 48 banks with a combined $69.6 billion in deposits have proposed or actually formed one-bank holding companies in 21 states. Among the 48 are many of the nation's largest banks: San Fran cisco's Bank of America, Crocker-Citizens and Wells Fargo, Pittsburgh's National Bank, Philadelphia's First Penn sylvania Banking and Trust Co. and Winston-Salem's Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. A few days ago, Manhattan's Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. joined the group...
...been piped from the gulf since 1937, and estimates are that the area harbors some 79 trillion cubic feet of gas or about one-fourth of the total U.S. reserves. The pipelaying splurge began sometime last year when natural-gas companies, who form the nation's sixth largest industry, found demand outpacing supply. Then came a fillip from the Federal Power Commission in Washington. Ruling that the gas companies should bring the Louisiana deposits ashore individually, the FPC scotched the plans of a large group of 30 oil companies headed by Shell to build a single, cooperative system...
...million, and electronics industries by 26%, to $2 billion. Machinery manufacturing has achieved an annual growth rate of 6%, reaching $2.4 billion in sales in 1967. Many large U.S. companies have firm roots in the Stuttgart area. IBM-Germany is now Baden-Württemberg's third-largest enterprise, after Daimler-Benz and Bosch. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. owns Standard Elektrik Lorenz electronics company, the state's fifth-largest firm. Litton Industries, Ampex, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett-Packard, Bendix Corp. and Hughes International are represented through their German subsidiaries...