Word: esso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shrine, a blood-red structure, cost $444,000. Contributors included Kamiya, all Toyota dealers in Japan and the Esso Standard Oil Co. (of Japan), whose American president is a friend of Kamiya's. The centerpiece of the temple is a statue of Kwannon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. At the dedication, Kamiya prayed that "the infinite compassion of Kwannon will protect the automobile from disasters...
...Libya last week ordered Esso not to export liquid natural gas from its new $350 million plant. The government declared that Esso was charging its Italian and Spanish customers an "artificially low price," and appointed a commission to investigate. Meantime, the company's two new tankers sat idle off the coast. In another move, Libya en forced an order requiring Occidental Petroleum and a joint venture of Texaco and Standard of California to reduce production by approximatey one-third. The declared reason: they were depleting the country's reserves too rapidly. - Algeria, which is against almost all Western...
...Wilson, chairman of the 1,200-unit chain of Holiday Inns. Having opened its first European inn two years ago at Leiden, The Netherlands, the company is building 15 more in Belgium, England, Austria, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Greece and Luxembourg; it is also drawing plans for an additional 47. Esso Motor Hotels, a subsidiary of Jersey Standard, already has 41 outlets in Europe and expects to have 70 soon...
...Colonel Papadopoulos was chief liaison between the CIA and its Greek counterpart, the KYP. The latter is directly financed and controlled by the CIA. The head of the CIA in Greece, James M. Potts, refers to Papadopoulos as his "son." Thomas Pappas, a Boston Greek-American businessman who owns Esso-Pappas, the leading oil company in Greece, has publicly declared how proud he is to work for the CIA. After the coup his contracts with the Greek government suddenly doubled. Pappas also boasts that it was he who suggested Agnew to Nixon for vice president...
More Untapped Riches. Exploration around Malaysia is also picking up. Gulf, Mobil and Amoco have received concessions off the west coast; Esso has drilled four wells off the east coast since last May and has found enough promising signs to call up another rig. Royal Dutch/Shell, which has the only offshore wells now producing in Southeast Asia, has brought a third rig from the U.S. to its site off Brunei. And half a dozen companies have begun surveys off southern Thailand...