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...Exxon service stations. Saul Bass, Herb Yager, Howard York and Richard Huppertz, principal designers. All elements, including architecture, graphics and gasoline pumps are integrated into one quietly assertive unit that should help calm America's roadside clutter...
Mobil has long been the lonely end of the oil industry. Consigned to runner-up status among petroleum refiners behind giant Exxon, it has earned a reputation for being combative and controversial. While some oil companies were worried about the political impact of venturing into other areas of business, Mobil jumped into retailing by spending $1.8 billion to buy Marcor, the parent company of Montgomery Ward...
...vote, the lawmakers approved a package of waivers to the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Act, which set the ground rules for the project as early as 1976. The three U.S. natural gas producers involved in the deal-Exxon, Standard Oil of Ohio and Atlantic Richfield-will be allowed to share ownership in the pipeline with the Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Co., the ten-company consortium that plans to build it. A1977 presidential decision barred such an agreement on antitrust grounds, but the backers argued that the change was needed to pay for the project...
...diverse as clothing and chemicals, furniture and food processing. Even high-technology firms, which once thought themselves to be immune from recession, are starting to feel squeezed. Two weeks ago, Nixdorf Computer of Waltham, Mass., let go 250 employees, or 11% of its work force. The division of Exxon that makes computerized typewriters and other office gear announced last week that it was dismissing a fifth of its employees and shutting down a factory in Orlando...
...left-wing or experimental work. They don't have the same altruistic concern for the arts that public subsidy does. We could subsidize a play which attacks nuclear energy, whereas the British nuclear power companies wouldn't." In the United States, as any public television watcher knows, Mobil and Exxon are "generous" supporters of the arts...