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...Flanking him at the speaker's table were two other top-flight scientists who have made their mark in chemistry via petroleum research. One was Per Keyser Frolich, president of the American Chemical Society and director of the chemical division of Standard of New Jersey's potent Esso laboratories. The other was Dr. Thomas Midgley Jr., president-elect of the Society, pioneer in the development of antiknock gasoline, and vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Invasion of Chemical Industry | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Twins. In Little Edisto, S. C., a Negro mother named her twins Esso and Essolene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...centre strip, soon to be hedged with small fir trees, divides the four lanes into two. No signboards mar the way or confuse the eye-its only borders are the misty, pine-edged hillsides of the Alleghenies. Ten smart Esso stations, finished Pennsylvania-Dutch fashion in native wood and stone, specialize in restroom toilet seats sterilized by ultraviolet ray after every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Glory Road | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...passengers and a steward were lost during the ten hours that the survivors, five of them women, clung precariously to seat-pack life preservers. Toward midnight, the Standard Oil tanker Esso Baytown, one of many craft searching by sea and air, picked them up, took them to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cavalier Crash | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...last week was a showy legal victory over Standard Oil of New Jersey, ending a "battle of brands" which began in 1935 after both companies had been consist- ently offside in each other's home territory. Federal Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis decided that the name "Esso" used by S.O.N.J.'s subsidiary had infringed on Standard of Indiana's trademark, "S.O.," granted an injunction prohibiting the New Jersey company from using in 14 Midwestern States any trademark derived from the words "Standard Oil." C. WThile automobile men talked of impending higher prices, off the assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Downtown | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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