Word: esso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the hearings opened fortnight ago, the majors wiped out much of the increase in heating-oil prices. Last week Atlantic Refining Co. and Esso Standard Oil took off the rest of the recent heating-oil price rise in states where competition was hottest, and the others were expected to do the same. Nevertheless. Hines H. Baker, president of the Humble Oil & Refining Co., stepped before the committee to make a case for the raise...
Naples, though its slum alleys are still noisome and laundry festoons every tenement, no longer seems such a violent affront to its breathtaking setting. To the land of the Fra Angelicos and hand-painted Sicilian donkey carts has come the neon glare of modern living-billboards, Life Savers, Esso stations, Hopalong Cassidy, even a little TV. Venetian canals boast traffic lights, and only a lusty gondolier could raise his tenor above the gaseous snarl of motoscafi...
...Tories had still another cheerful item to offset the bad economic news Britons have lately been reading. Next February will see the end of the non-branded, inferior gasoline called "pool petrol," used in British cars for the past 13 years. Back will come brand names-Shell, BP, Esso-and premium price high-octane gasolines, at 63^ the imperial gallon, about 4? more than standard gas. In preparation for the happy return of competition, oil companies began training their employees in such forgotten amenities as cleaning the windshield and wearing a smile...
...Standard has also been promoting art abroad. Last year the company's Rome affiliate held a contest for Italian painters, handed out $3,000 in prizes for everything from abstractions of refineries to landscapes dotted with Esso signs...
...Germans want to tax allied business firms in Germany (General Motors, Esso, Coca-Cola, etc.), under a new and sweeping share-the-war-burden law.* Compromise: allied firms will be exempted for about two more years...