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...biggest government crises since she took office by announcing a 25% cut in the rice ration. In yet another attempt to ease Ceylon's formidable economic woes, her government last April seized almost 200 gas stations and oil depots owned by a trio of U.S. and British firms (Esso, Caltex, Burmah-Shell). Total value of expropriated properties: $20 million...
...seven years ago to refine and market Iranian oil. British oil companies currently sell about 25% of the gasoline used in Italy; Mattei slyly implies that he would be satisfied with the same percentage of the British market, 83% of which has been held up to now by British Esso and Shell...
...Insight into the interaction between hydrocarbons and catalytic surfaces has been acquired by Esso Research scientists using advanced techniques for fundamental studies of adsorption on heterogeneous catalysts. The first results were obtained from a detailed infrared study of adsorbed acetylenes...
...adapted from a scientist's notes at Esso Research and Engineering Company P.O. Box 45B, Linden, New Jersey...
...when the Reds demanded control of key departments as their price for support in São Paulo's mayoralty election. Quadros turned them down. In their wrath, the Communists tried to tie a capitalist can to Quadros with such epithets as "Wall Street stooge" and "the Esso candidate," did their best-as they have in every election since-to defeat him. Quadros took to the streets, boasting that he owned only one pair of shoes ("Why should any man with only one pair of feet need more than one pair of shoes?"), ran on a platform of honesty...