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...Angeles and talked his parents into letting him buy an aged and battered Ford - "not to drive, just to work on." That was in 1949, two years after London Fur Broker John Cobb set a new land speed record, gunning his twin-engined, 2,500-h.p. Railton Mobil Special up to 394.196 m.p.h. Over the years, dozens of daredevils have tried to crack Cobb's mark, and few sporting pursuits have been so costly to participants in terms of money and life. The turbine-powered Bluebird of Britain's Donald Campbell...
...business of making toothbrushes, running a motel, selling houses or dredging for diamonds. Oil companies got their start by striking oil, but they are now striking out into a wide-ranging diversification program that often takes them far from the oilfields. Says Vice President S. G. Walters of Socony-Mobil's Mobil Centers division: "We'll find money to in vest in any proposal that shows promise of a substantial return...
...York's spread-out and orderly waterfront, its 17-mile river route to the North Sea is a forest of cranes, derricks and masts through which ships of all sizes confidently move in every direction. Along its banks are such big oil refiners as Shell, Caltex, Esso, Mobil and British Petroleum, which have made Rotterdam one of the world's main oil-refining centers. The port boasts the Verolme shipyards, one of Europe's biggest, the headquarters of the Holland-America Line, the world's biggest artificial harbor, and a growing chemical and petrochemical complex...
...Cadillac). By 1965, the industry figures that seat belts will be standard equipment on all cars. California Standard's Chevron gasoline stations in the East have had such success (50,000 new charge-account customers) by selling and installing belts at $5.95 each that this year Texaco, Socony Mobil, Shell and Richfield will start selling them...
...with Hotels. Foreign businessmen complain about Formosa's niggling bureaucratic controls and steep interest rates (up to 30%), but many have overcome their misgivings under the lure of a 1960 tax incentive law. Socony Mobil Oil, Allied Chemical and a Chinese partner have set up a $22,500,000 joint fertilizer venture. American Cyanamid has joined with the Taiwan Sugar Corp. to set up a $2,000,000 antibiotics plant. Together with Chinese partners, Procter & Gamble is building a detergent-manufacturing plant. Atlas Chemical an industrial dynamite plant. Singer sewing machine, Harvey Aluminum and Gulf Oil plan to come...