Word: oils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Utilities Commonwealth & Southern 8,122,997 5,576,287 Consolidated Edison 7,831,954 9,487,423 Food & Drink General Foods 6,868,823 6,193,578 Standard Brands 5,721,352 4,266,261 National Distillers 2,792,938 2,766,353 Petroleum Union Oil Co. of California. 5,200,000 4,950,000 Tide Water Associated. . . 7,696,701 5,992,705 Shell Union 8,480,927 5,830,437 Aircraft Douglas 525,822 1.093,149 Martin 526,307 1,372,600 Cinema Paramount 4,290,000 1,225,811 Twentieth Century-Fox (26 weeks...
...Packing Co., Bon Ami Co. "A", Central Aguirre Associates, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., First National Stores, Inc., W. T. Grant Co., George W. Helme Co., Homestake Mining Co., International Business Machines Corp., Kroger Grocery and Baking Co., Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., McKeesport Tinplate Corp., Monsanto Chemical Co., Sun Oil Co., and United States Tobacco...
Gasoline was first made by distilling crude oil, then by the "casing-head process," next by "cracking," finally by hydrogenation. Cracking, of which hydrogenation is a continuation, consists of breaking down the molecular structure of heavy crude oil into a number of lighter, more salable derivatives such as kerosene and gasoline. Polymerization is the reverse; it takes the very lightweight, gaseous fractions of petroleum, which were formerly wasted or used only in restricted ways,* and through pressure, heat and catalytic agents builds them into heavier molecules for high-test (antiknock) gasoline...
...Most regular-grade automobile gas is about 70 octane. By polymerization Phillips Pete developed 100 octane gas-useless for modern automobiles but invaluable for airplane engines, which must get maximum efficiency and sudden "burst" response on take-off or emergencies. Howard Hughes used 100 octane gas provided by Standard Oil on part of his round-the-world flight, and it is increasingly in demand in military aviation...
Eying this field, Phillips took out a set of polymerization patents, soon ran up against competing patents owned by Texas Corp., Standard Oil (New Jersey), Standard Oil (Indiana). Rather than wage a costly fight, these four companies pooled their patents under The Polymerization Process Corp., which leases the process. Last fall Phillips Pete put up two massive polymerization units at Kansas City and Borger, Texas, baffled the oil world by turning out 100 octane gas in quantity too great for any known U. S. use. All Chairman Frank Phillips will say is that "the total output is being sold abroad...