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Exxon up 55%, Gulf up 68%, Mobil up 78%, Getty up 83%, Texaco...
...there are certain guys in and around Brooklyn who have been hijacking 3,000-gal. gasoline trucks for a month or so and making themselves a nice piece of change. So far, they have knocked over at least 15 belonging to Texaco, Mobil, Exxon and others. The companies store gasoline and oil in Greenpoint, a factory area in Brooklyn where the barges come up Newtown Creek and unload. The gas is trucked around New York City, and it does not take a genius to know that the trucks all have to take the same main roads...
...down on the floor unless he wants his brains blown out. The driver, not being willing to die for dear old Texaco, does what he is told, and a plastic bag is yanked over his head to help keep him quiet. These guys prefer unmarked trucks because, say, a Mobil truck pulling up to an Exxon station might draw the attention of a prowl car. They drive to a friendly gas station, usually an off-brand place where a deal had been prearranged, sort of a hijack-to-order. It is not too shrewd to grab a tank truck...
October 12: Major oil companies announce third quarter profits rise an average of 310 per cent. Mobil buys Venezuela. Secretary of the Treasury Amin calls in oil company presidents, shoots and eats them...
December 1: Presidents Connally, Kennedy and Brown announce they are joining the India-China alliance to combat "Washington's creeping fascism." Iran, Canada, and Mobil-Venezuala also join...