Word: mobility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year's fitful stock market, oil company shares have been uncommonly buoyant. Last week Gulf, Mobil, Standard of Ohio and Standard of Indiana hit new 1966 highs on the New York Stock Exchange. As a group, domestic oil shares have weathered the market's decline this year and maintained their Jan. 1 prices. During the last quarter, mutual funds-which were net sellers of most stocks-bought petroleum shares more heavily than any other type...
...past, but ahead are football weekends with all their tangy exuberance. And for many a family, now is the time for the weekend jaunt. Increasingly, the stop en route will be for good eating. Whether steered by word of mouth or by such guides to gastronomy as the Mobil Travel Guide (which this year sold more than 1,000,000 at $1.95 each), discriminating motorists are timing their trips to take advantage of the thriving country restaurants that in recent years have sprung up in profusion across...
GREAT BRITAIN. The costly gasoline price-cutting war has given way to a battle of giveaways, with Shell using such U.S.-style gimmicks as "make money" matching coupons (top value: $280) to hold its commanding 45% of the market against Esso and Mobil. In tires, the home team (Dunlop) has about half of the market. Trying to catch up, Goodyear has announced plans to expand its plants in England and Scotland, and Firestone will build a second plant in Wales. Even now, says Firestone's British division chairman, William A. Adam, the company is working "at 110% of capacity...
...greatest corporate opportunity is in fertilizer-the quickest way to spur the yield from the millions of farms still tilled by horse and hand in underdeveloped countries. In Taiwan. Mobil Oil and Allied Chemical have teamed with a local firm to build a $20 million urea-and-ammonia plant. Esso Chemical Co. is investing $200 million in fertilizer factories in 13 areas as disparate as Aruba and Malaysia. In the Philippines, Esso built a fertilizer plant and sent teams of native salesmen out into the paddies to show suspicious farmers how much more money they could earn by using agricultural...
...showing considerable conscience. On its 1,200 acres, Intalco has planted bird cover, posted the lands for hunting, leased ground cheaply to neighboring farmers and, where possible, kept the cherished fruit orchards. Its buildings are painted an inconspicuous earthy green and buff. Near Intalco, at a $50 million refinery, Mobil has built in a system for the bacteriological destruction of poisonous phenols, so that wastes discharged into Georgia Strait are not harmful to sea life. Every year Mobil surveys alternately the health of sea and plant life and the health of oyster and clam beds in tidal waters...