Word: esso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, the Office announced that a representative of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Overseas will be at Weld Hall 30 Monday to interview February graduates in engineering, geology, and applied physics for jobs with Esso in Venezuela...
...violent anti-U.S. speech at U.N.'s General Assembly (TIME, Oct. 4), Vishinsky cited a certain map as evidence that U.S. capitalism is plotting war. Said Vishinsky: "The map published by the Esso Company of New York is of ... insolently arrogant and war-inciting nature ... It is called, quite provocatively, The Map of the Third World War.' That is what they are publishing in the U.S. . . . They are handing them out to motorists. This map, with provocatively militant appeals, carries the heading: 'Pacific Theater of Military Operations.' The map is an example of malicious...
...Paris became curious. A quick check showed that some overeager beaver in Moscow had committed a prize boner. The map in question was entitled: "War Map III, featuring the Pacific Theater." It covered Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia. It was published in December 1944, as an ad for Esso; it was the third in a series designed to help the U.S. public follow the progress of World War II (earlier maps had covered the European and African theaters...
Belgium, which fought her inflation with rigorous, classic financial methods, has made a rapid recovery, and it was quite a pleasure to see the familiar Esso trademark on the bright-red new gasoline stations going up on the main roads...
...Esso Cuts. Esso Standard Oil Co., last of the industry to hike prices last fall, was also the first to slash them again. It cut the prices of more than 350 products (bottled gas, roofing asphalts, industrial lubricants, etc.) from 5% to 25%. By week's end Shell Oil Co., Inc. had followed Esso Standard's lead. Unchanged: the price of gasoline...