Word: mobiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socony Mobil...
...first Tarzan who actually spoke whole sentences was Lex Barker, of the New York Social Register, who in 1948 replaced Johnny Weissmuller, the mobil-est Tarzan of them all. An Olympic champion and once the fastest swimmer in the world, Weissmuller also holds the record for longevity as the jungle hero: twelve versions over 16 years. Today's Tarzan is Gordon Scott, 30, with a 50-in. chest. A onetime lifeguard at a Las Vegas hotel, Scott is the first Tarzan in color and CinemaScope...
...industry, which is having its full share of recession troubles, last week added still another, left over from a time of shortage. In Alexandria, Va., a federal grand jury indicted 29 of the industry's companies-among them: Standard Oil (N.J.), Socony-Mobil, Shell Oil, Gulf, Tidewater, Phillips Petroleum-for allegedly using the Suez crisis 19 months ago to fix prices of crude oil and gasoline, accused them of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to restrain trade. It was the first large-scale criminal price-fixing case against the industry in more than...
...EXPANSION by Socony Mobil will pump alltime-high $435 million into new equipment and exploration this year, up $14 million from 1957. About 65% will be spent at home, though Socony gets only 40% of its earnings in U.S. Company expects free-world consumption of oil to increase by at least 50% within decade and industry will have to invest $115 billion to meet...
...They fear that stockholders might think the planes are used only for junkets and fishing trips. But few companies will buy, and fewer plane makers will sell, a plane unless it adds to the customer's profit. Eastman Kodak, U.S. Steel, International Business Machines, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Socony Mobil Oil Co and Texas Co. all have fleets ranging from puddle jumpers to four-engined DC-6Bs and turbo prop Vickers Viscounts. They find them worth their cost many times over in shuttling men and equipment around their widely diversified operations...