Word: gm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Standard Oil of New Jersey) stands second only to General Motors in sales, and tops Fortune magazine's 500 industrials in assets. The assets of the three companies which originally formed Rockefeller's Standard Oil--Exxon and the Standard Oil Companies of California and Indiana--taken together are twice GM...
...General Motors reports a new process that reduces SO2 emissions by 90%. Tested successfully for 14 months in a pilot installation at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, Ohio, GM's process starts with a trap to take dust particles out of coal smoke. Then the gases are routed into a device called a scrubber, where they bubble through a caustic-soda solution; chemical reaction between the SO2 and the soda produces two salts, sodium sulfite and sodium sulfate, that are pumped from the scrubber in waste liquids into tanks. There, lime and calcium carbonate are added. The resulting calcium...
...GM is expanding its system to serve the entire Chevrolet-Parma plant. That will cost $3,000,000. But the process will pay for itself by allowing GM-or any other industrial user-to burn the cheapest and most abundant of all fuels: high-sulfur coal...
...many years, it has been fashionable to make fun of mass transit while GM and Ford assault us with their million dollar seduction jobs. For the Crimson to abuse a bus is to further encourage people to use individual transit (to drive cars and take taxis), meaning more pollution, more dependence on foreign oil, more asphalt, more parking lots, etc. We should use our college years as a chance to establish good vibes with mass transit and develop less environmentally destructive transportation habits. Charles G. Garlow...
...addition GM plans to offer later in the model year about 50,000 cars -Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs-equipped with air bags as a $200 optional substitute for seat belts. During a collision, the bags are supposed to prevent serious injury by ejecting and popping open to quickly fill the space between driver and windshield, then instantly deflate. One drawback: if the car continues to bounce or fall, the driver could be injured after the bag loses air. Nonetheless, Ford and Chrysler also plan to offer air bags as options...