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...Esso similarly quit when the government turned over the entire valley to E.N.I...
...make a map. Even if you can't draw. Simply sketch in a few lines on a piece of paper, identify some important intersections and checkpoints, and that's it. For indicating directions or the location of a place, such a map will probably serve as well as the Esso variety from the local gas station. Maybe even better, since it will be less cluttered with irrelevant material...
Forty-eight hours after he moved up to manage Esso's sprawling oil refinery at Bayonne, N.J. on New Year's Day, mild-mannered Dr. David F. Edwards, 54, sent the city an ultimatum. Bayonne, which was threatening to raise Esso's taxes another $400,000 a year, must give up any idea of increased taxes, instead cut its operating budget by 10% within two weeks. If it did not, Esso would cancel its $2,000,000 modernization program at the Bayonne plant, and very likely move out altogether-just as Tidewater Oil Co. did two years...
...Europe? At the Commission hearings, big exporters argued that shipments to oil-short Europe were already being restricted. Humble Oil, subsidiary of Jersey Standard and the biggest producer and oil-buyer in Texas, testified that it could supply only 165,500 bbls. of a 300,000 bbl. order from Esso Export. W.C. Connel of the B.P. (British Petroleum ) Trading Co. wired that British companies wanting to buy 3,000,000 bbls. on the Gulf Coast were forced to divert their tankers around Africa to the Persian Gulf because "there is no assured supply of crude...
...Radio City Music Hall. When the 550-ft., air-conditioned building is finished in two years, TIME Inc. will take over 20 lower floors; the remaining 27 floors will be rented by Rockefeller Center, Inc. to other occupants, e.g., American Cyanamid Co.. Shell Oil Co., McCann-Erickson, Inc., Esso Standard Oil Co. The plans of Manhattan Architects Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz (whose firm helped design Rockefeller Center, the United Nations building and many of the new Pittsburgh skyscrapers) call for a massive rectangular tower rising from two setbacks at the third and eighth floors, with the main...