Word: newjerseyer
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Some companies went to work on their own. Koppers picked a "reorganization point" outside Pittsburgh, stocked nearby bank vaults with microfilms of vital company records, and instructed key personnel to head for this emergency shelter at the first sign of attack. Standard Oil (NewJersey) set up an alternate office 60 to 75 miles outside New York City to feed, sleep and serve as GHQ for 100 top executives. Curtiss-Wright bought 84 square miles in north central Pennsylvania to assemble jet engines and 5,000 acres in New Jersey's Ramapo Hills for a bombproof headquarters. The petroleum industry...