Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no reason why research of this type should not pay off quickly if there is enough money for an all-out effort. There is a perfect textbook example: in 1945 the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey sent a cancer-causing oil to Memorial and later to N.Y.U.'s Institute. The cancer-causing factor was identified and measures were perfected to limit the use of the oil and keep workers from being exposed to it. In the case of cigarettes, researchers are confident that the cancer-causing factor can be 1) identified and 2) removed from...
...Among them: Chairman Frank Abrams of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, Navy Secretary Robert Anderson, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, Governor James Byrnes, Oveta Culp Hobby, Paul Hoffman, John Roosevelt, Editor Ben Hibbs of the Saturday Evening Post, President Millicent Mclntosh of Barnard College, Edward R. Murrow, President Juan Trippe of Pan American, Thomas J. Watson Jr. of I.B.M...
...winters generally getting warmer? The U.S. Weather Bureau has found that they are. In the last 50 years, average winter temperatures in the U.S. have risen about two degrees. Last week Standard Oil of New Jersey reported that it has also found that winters are getting warmer, after an analysis of temperatures in 30 cities for the last 50 years. Measured in terms of a degree-day unit,* the standard in the oil industry for estimating fuel-oil needs, Jersey Standard found that winters are "running about 4% warmer," and that "the long-term trend is to milder winters...
Standard Oil Co. of NJ. this week added its name to the growing list of U.S. companies urging lower tariffs. In a statement to the Clarence Randall Commission, Jersey Standard said: "Deterrents to international trade or investment . . . in U.S. laws or regulations should be reduced to the fullest possible extent consistent with national security, and . . . any further restrictions . . . should be avoided as injurious to our country and its citizens...
...second in importance only to "a vigorous and expanding" domestic business. As an example of the mutual benefits of free trade, Standard cited Venezuela, which last year exported $330 million in oil to the U.S., and in turn imported more than $500 million in goods from the U.S. Said Jersey Standard: "When we trade our products for those we do not have, or for those which other people can make more advantageously, we benefit by having a wider variety of things to enjoy or by getting them at lower prices...