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...Blanc was only a 3,000-tonner, but its cargo was something more than mere ammunition. Every usable square foot of cargo space was crammed with raw explosives-200 tons of TNT and 2,300 tons of lyddite, which is more powerful than TNT. On deck, reeking like an Esso station, were 35 tons of benzole in drums stacked three high...
Died. Eger Vaughan Murphree, 63, president of Esso Research & Engineering Co. since 1947, a cool and persuasive executive-chemist who developed the 100-octane gasoline that boosted World War II bombers 43% in load-carrying capacity, served on James B. Conant's S-1 Committee, which set up the atom-smashing Manhattan Project, and in 1956 spent a year trying to unscramble the U.S. ballistic missile program as its first overall civilian boss; of a heart attack; in Summit...
...longtime student of the detergent dilemma-first at the Esso Research & Engineering Co. and later in his own Newark laboratory-Dr. Eldib builds his argument on the detergents' chemical structure. Detergents are compounds made of long molecules, and each molecule has a water-loving and a water-hating end. When the molecules are dissolved in water, their water-hating ends grab firmly at any grease that is present. This accounts for the detergents' cleansing ability. They also grab at water-air surfaces, which is what makes them collect bubbles and form foam...
...thrifty Dutch are not about to spend their liquid gold recklessly. Shell and Esso have been shepherded into a shotgun marriage w?ith The Netherlands States Mines to market the gas. and De Pous. now-dubbed "The Sheik" by wags around The Hague, is laying down stringent marketing regulations. Present plans are to reserve about 25 billion cubic feet of it for "premium'' industrial use. including the fueling of projected new aluminum and ammonia plants, and to enable Dutch householders to convert to gas furnaces and stoves...
Europe's Biggest. This week the Kockums yard in Malmö will deliver the largest ship ever built in Scandinavia, the tanker Esso Lancashire (81,150 deadweight tons). At the Eriksberg yard in Göteborg, workers are laying the keel for the largest ship ever built in Europe, a 92,750-ton Socony Mobil tanker...