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...companies are buying. Accusations of profiteering and veiled threats of federal crackdowns have driven the energy conglomerates to mount a massive and unprecedented media blitz aimed at changing their public image. Last year the oil industry spent over $100 million on advertising, much of it unabashedly political. Mobil alone spends about $5 million a year, and from 1973 to mid-1976 not a penny went to product advertisements. Instead, the entire budget went to buying huge amounts of newspaper, magazine and television ads devoted to the now-familiar oil company theme--that somehow the government and those no-good liberals...
...seem to be rising to the challenge. They are welcoming and searching out Democratic defectors and trying to shed their country-club image of Wasp exclusivism. Says the Free Congress Committee's Weyrich: "In the past, we conservatives have paraded all those Chamber of Commerce candidates with the Mobil Oil billboards strapped to their backs. It doesn't work in middle-class neighborhoods...
...Mobil subsidiary in South Africa runs a refinery near Durban; another handles marketing. Mobil recently bought 32.9 per cent of a lubricating-oil refinery. It is prospecting for off-shore oil. There is evidence that Mobil South Africa has exported oil to Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), breaking U.N. sanctions that are binding on U.S. companies...
...average African monthly wage at Mobil's Durban refinery was $137 without Christmas bonus in 1972. Between 1962 and 1972. Mobil trained 19 Africans (mostly in heavy-vehicle driving) and 992 whites...
Harvard holds $53 million in Mobil stocks and bonds...