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...hear from him, she lets her mother marry her off to a sober young jewel merchant. One Christmas time years later, the lovers meet again briefly and find themselves virtual strangers. Genevieve is now a chic, prosperous Parisienne. Guy has acquired a pleasant wife, a son, and an Esso station he can call...
...Goal. Under Sir Alexander Bustamante, 80, a white-maned half-Irishman who organized the island's labor unions in the turbulent 1930s, the government has an ambitious, five-year plan for new schools, hospitals, roads and housing. Shrewd tax benefits have attracted foreign companies to Jamaica -Esso has opened an $18 million refinery, Sterling Drug and International Telephone & Telegraph are building plants. Tourism is thriving, will probably hit about 230,000 people this year. But last year's overall economic growth rate fell short of the plan's intended 5% annual gain, and there are other worries...
Buried Antagonisms. Both business and labor have sought to bury their ancient antagonisms, and the presence of U.S. firms and methods in Europe has helped. In Britain, for example, Esso has introduced productivity bonuses for its workers. In Sweden, which has not suffered a major strike since 1953, managers and labor leaders meet yearly to decide upon wage guidelines for all industry. With its top members on most major corporate boards and a $250 million treasury to invest, the West German Trade Union Federation has become absolutely capitalistic: it owns dozens of businesses, from the country's biggest housebuilder...
...plants. The city of Latina, just below Rome, has risen out of a drained marsh to become a bustling center of steel processing, pharmaceuticals and cinema studios. The discovery of methane gas reserves has brought three major petroleum companies to Ferrandina. At Sicily's port of Augusta, the Esso refinery has attracted so many other industries that Sicilians call the region "piccolo Milano"-little Milan...
...touching tribute to American advertising competition. It was a sign outside a non-Esso station that read, "We take the tiger hairs out of your tank...