Word: esso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same windswept villages and groves, glowering beneath cloudy skies, that he has been painting for the past 35 years. One modern note: beside one of the rutted country roads that Vlaminck loves to paint, the artist had highlighted the shining red pumps and the oval sign of an Esso station...
...precaution against A-bombs, the Esso Standard Oil Co. last week announced that it is setting up emergency offices on a 50-acre tract near Morristown, N.J., 35 miles from its Manhattan headquarters in Rockefeller Center. Esso will equip its new offices with typewriters, files, microfilmed records. If an "acute deterioration of international relations" makes Manhattan look unhealthy, the company will move a clerical staff to the country offices, rotate its top officials between the two headquarters...
...businesses seem to be happy to foot this bill because most repeat once they send a man to the program. The Esso Division of Standard Oil, for instance, has shipped 80 men in the relatively short time the program has been functioning...
...Esso judges divided the $1,500 first prize between Franco Gentilini, 42, who did a lively brown and green oil of a refinery (see cut), and Renzo Vespignani, 26, a onetime pupil of Gentilini's, who painted a striking night-time scene of a smoke-shrouded refinery...
Vespignani, a card-carrying Communist, has no scruples about taking money from U.S. capitalists. "After all," said he, "every painting is a kind of record, a statement that something exists. These oil refineries exist. And anyway, there was nothing in my painting that said 'Go out and buy Esso gasoline...