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Perhaps Reader Williams' cats are so undernourished they don't have the stamina to get the best of a rat, but since Esso Junior is seemingly well provided for he would exercise his muscles on large, fat rats for the sheer pleasure...
Fortnight ago, as it must even to cats, death came to Minnie Esso in her 16th year, her 14th as an Esso employe. Her successor, named last week: Son Esso Junior, aged three months. First day on the job, Esso Junior proved that he could fill his mother's boots. He killed a large...
...Esso incendiary is a 6½ lb., 19 in. length of six-sided pipe filled with gasoline thickened to a sticky, raspberry-pink jelly by the addition of a still-secret powder. This oil-bomb produces almost twice as much heat in proportion to weight as magnesium and spreads destruction much faster...
...Army, casting about for a better and more easily produced bomb, found an answer in M-69, developed by the Standard Oil Development Co. (N.J.), an Esso research outfit...
...Esso's gasoline jelly is also used in the Army's flamethrower, affectionately called the "G.I. hot foot" (TIME...