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...violent anti-U.S. speech at U.N.'s General Assembly (TIME, Oct. 4), Vishinsky cited a certain map as evidence that U.S. capitalism is plotting war. Said Vishinsky: "The map published by the Esso Company of New York is of ... insolently arrogant and war-inciting nature ... It is called, quite provocatively, The Map of the Third World War.' That is what they are publishing in the U.S. . . . They are handing them out to motorists. This map, with provocatively militant appeals, carries the heading: 'Pacific Theater of Military Operations.' The map is an example of malicious...
Belgium, which fought her inflation with rigorous, classic financial methods, has made a rapid recovery, and it was quite a pleasure to see the familiar Esso trademark on the bright-red new gasoline stations going up on the main roads...
...Esso Cuts. Esso Standard Oil Co., last of the industry to hike prices last fall, was also the first to slash them again. It cut the prices of more than 350 products (bottled gas, roofing asphalts, industrial lubricants, etc.) from 5% to 25%. By week's end Shell Oil Co., Inc. had followed Esso Standard's lead. Unchanged: the price of gasoline...
Confusion, Ltd. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), a holding company, and its operating subsidiary, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, made it easier to tell them apart. The operating company changed its name to Esso Standard...
Last week, 2½ months behind schedule, Pilots Truman and Evans landed at Van Nuys Airport outside Los Angeles. Their trip had covered 22,275 miles, cost $2,000 including gasoline and oil (which they bought on Esso credit cards). They were given a heroes' welcome. George got a haircut, Cliff a kiss from Miss Van Nuys of 1947 (see cut). Back in Washington, their wives, who had expected them in September, were a bit frosty. Wired Mrs. Truman to Mr. Truman: "You're the luckiest guy in the world to have a wife like...