"FORTUNE'S" NEW LIST of the 500 biggest U.S. industrial corporations in 1958 showed some changes in the top ten. Chrysler, which was sixth in 1957, dropped to eleventh; Bethlehem Steel, which was ninth, dropped to twelfth. Newcomers: Texaco and Western Electric. The top ten: G.M. ($9.5 billion in sales), Jersey Standard ($7.5 billion), Ford ($4.1 billion), G.E. ($4.1 billion, and up a notch from '57), U.S. Steel ($3.5 billion, down a notch), Socony Mobil Oil ($2.9 billion), Gulf Oil ($2.8 billion), Swift ($2.6 billion), Texaco ($2.3 billion), Western Electric ($2.2 billion).
HOWARD HUGHES, whose Hughes Tool Co. controls TWA, plans to sell...
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