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...Fonts, General Motors and U.S. Rubber. The Government, which is trying to 1) force Du Pont to sell its G.M. stock (23%), 2) require members of the Du Pont family to unload their 17% interest in U.S. Rubber, and 3) get G.M. to drop its 50% interest in the Ethyl Corp., wanted to know what G.M.'s former president knew of G.M.-U.S. Rubber dealings...
...regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants - and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...delighted to read your Dec. 24 article on Johns Hopkins' Robert Williams Wood. It gives me the opportunity to air a slight but persistent gripe concerning, of all things, the current Ethyl gasoline advertisements carried by some pretty estimable magazines: "There's a big difference between holly and a polly," etc. This is a direct steal from Professor Wood's charming (and far cleverer) . . . The Antelope-The Cantelope...
About 70% of the potential energy of alcohol can be used this way, Dr. Daniel suggests. "This would mean that five calories are liberated by the oxidation of one gram of pure ethyl alcohol in the body." But the findings were intended as no special endorsement of cocktails. There is more nutrition in a 5? candy bar than in a 50? Martini...
...General Motors' research department in 1923, helped develop ethyl gasoline...