The Top 30--Stability Among the Nation’s Elite

Chrysler Corp., the third biggest U.S. auto maker, returned to the Fortune 500 list’s top 10 for the first time in a decade because of its acquisition of American Motors Co. for $1 billion, according to the annual rankings issued Wednesday. The rest of the top 30:

1987 Sales Rank (’86 Rank) in billions 1. General Motors (1) $101.782 2. Exxon (2) $76.416 3. Ford Motor (3) $71.643 4. IBM (4) $54.217 5. Mobil (5) $51.223 6. General Electric (6) $39.315 7. Texaco (8) $34.372 8. AT&T; (7) $33.598 9. Du Pont (9) $30.468 10. Chrysler (11) $26.258 11. Chevron (10) $26.015 12. Philip Morris (12) $22.279 13. Shell Oil (15) $20.852 14. Amoco (13) $20.174 15. United Technologies (17) $17.170 16. Occidental Petroleum (19) $17.096 17. Procter & Gamble (18) $17.000 18. Atlantic Richfield (20) $16.281 19. RJR Nabisco (14) $15.868 20. Boeing (16) $15.355 21. Tenneco (21) $15.075 22. BP America (35) $14.611 23. USX (22) $13.898 24. Dow Chemical (27) $13.377 25. Eastman Kodak (26) $13.305 26. McDonnell Douglas (23) $13.146 27. Rockwell International (24) $12.123 28. Allied-Signal (25) $11.597 29. Pepsico (34) $11.500 30. Lockheed (30) $11.370