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Caltex is owned jointly by Texaco and Standard Oil of California. It operates a refinery in Cape Town, and markets petroleum products throughout the country. It also owns shares in two Southern Rhodesian marketing and refining companies. Caltex employs about 2000 workers in South Africa, about a third of them black. The average African wage in 1972 was $139 a month; the minimum...
...that distance being double the focal length of the lens. Then the tapestry is illuminated with banks of lights (see diagram) while, inside the camera, technicians fine-focus the image on a screen 3.9 meters behind the focal point of the lens. Next, they lower a huge sheet of standard Polaroid negative stock, hold it flat against the screen with a vacuum pump and trip the shutter, thus exposing the negative...
...time-sharing innovation have made DRI by far the biggest in the field. The most reliable performance rating of the prophets is made by Economist Stephen McNees of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, who concludes that the three computerized econometric data firms - DRI, Wharton and Chase Econometrics - set the standard for accuracy among professional forecasters...
...support it. But I take the view that some of the things this government has done are such that their own people have lost confidence in them. So whenever there is an election, we shall win, and I hope with a good majority. Inflation, a drop in the real standard of living, no increase in our manufacturing output in three years, a taxation system so heavy that many ordinary people say there's no incentive to work-those sources of resentment [will not] disappear...
...Mobil $53,036,556 Exxon $41,937,361 Quebec Hydro-Electric $31,354,629 G.M. $30,614,761 Eastman Kodak $26,828,948 Continental Oil $22,064,320 General Reinsurance Group $21,790,981 MAPCO $21,218,851 Getty $20,219,9033 Atlantic Richfield $17,570,839 Standard Oil of California $17,074,654 St. Regis Paper $15,353,397 General Electric $15,187,405 Sears, Roebuck $14,924,096 Beneficial $13,822,884 Caterpillar Tractor $13,741,103 Province of Ontario $12,335,910 Dow Chemical $12,227,949 Aluminum Co. of America $11,865,565 Union Carbide...