The Big Ten

The Federal Trade Commission last week listed the ten biggest manufacturing corporations in the U.S., based on their assets (as of 1948). The ten:

Standard Oil (N.J.) $3,526,043,348 General Motors 2,957,769,607 U.S. Steel 2,534,971,836 Standard Oil (Indiana) 1,500,049,488 Socony-Vacuum 1,443,034,000 The Texas Co. 1,277,093,761 Gulf Oil 1,191,004,087 E. I. du Pont de Nemours 1,189,345,419 General Electric 1,177,391,546 Ford 1,149,240,689

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