Word: texaco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...require the British company to lay out a shilling now; the price is to be financed largely out of BP's eventual revenues from the sale of Alaskan crude. The combination would create a company able to compete aggressively against oil giants like Jersey Standard, Mobil and Texaco. As London's Financial Times commented last week: "The tragedy is that [U.S.] antitrust legislation was devised to encourage competition in the U.S. Yet the manner in which it is being implemented is having the effect of deterring European companies from entering the U.S. and so bringing with them...
...quality motor oil is only 80% to 85% petroleum; the rest is a complex blend of chemicals that are added to keep it from thinning out, prevent engine deposits and neutralize the acids that are byproducts of combustion. The big oil companies - such as Gulf, Mobil and Texaco - work close ly with auto producers to devise formulas that will meet the specific needs of each engine, depending upon its horsepower and the climate in which the car is usually driven. Still, many motorists attempt to outguess the experts by using additives, which are usually made by companies other than...
...statuary versus shots of the people gaily swinging through the busy streets of Brazil's modern cities, qua qua. And there to help them is American business, working and playing to build a strong, free Western Hemisphere. The whole gang's on hand: Coke, Ford, General Motors, Shell, Texaco, Esso, Frank Sinatra, even Helena Rubinstein with American beauty standards. But the spoken narration puts this post-card Brazil into perspective, reciting figures on the present-day poverty of the Brazilian people, on the history of foreign profiteering. The Old and the New are but emblems of successive ruling classes...
What Tropici does best is record the landscape of foreign business domination. Once we lose Miguel, Tropici is strewn with interesting shots of the billboards that blister the countryside of Brazil, shouting "Texaco" "Ford" "Esso" at the passing cars. But this is rather small accomplishment; it's all there, as obvious as a Wheaties box. Tropici is betrayed by Amico's failure to integrate his narrative and documentary concerns, to deal with them not in isolation but in interaction. This failure gives his statement on foreign exploitation the ring of a superficial overview, rendering it less forceful, less immediate...
General Motors again led the list, followed in the top ten by Standard Oil (N.J.), Ford, General Electric, Chrysler, IBM, Mobil Oil, Texaco, Gulf Oil and U.S. Steel. Collectively, the top ten increased earnings by 21%, or double the rate of the other 490 companies...