Word: swearingen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steel Ad ministrative Vice President R. Heath Larry worries that Johnson is going ";beyond the law" and using Administrative fiat to impose his will not only in the field of wages and prices but also in foreign investments and capital spend ing. Complains Standard Oil (Indiana) Chairman John E. Swearingen: "If you deal with the law, you know the rules and penalties. But what we have now is like a game where they change the rules every quarter...
...SWEARINGEN...
COUPLING yesterday's sense of thrift with today's management-by-computer techniques, John Eldred Swearingen, 45, has sharply raised earnings in the five years that he has been president of Standard Oil (Indiana). Last week he took pride in a 35% earnings jump to $140 million for the first nine months of 1963, and in winning a big oil concession in Egypt. One of the youngest men ever to head a major U.S. oil company, South Carolina-born Swearingen joined Standard as a chemical engineer at 20, rose through research and production to become president...