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...electrical supervisor at Brooklyn's Navy Yard just as dawn was breaking around 6 o'clock. There was a slight glaze of icy snow on the road, and at a turn just south of 96th Street, Martin's car skidded into a lazy U-turn...
...U-Turn. Petrofina owes its recovery principally to astute Chairman-President Laurent Wolters, 61, a Russian-born Belgian who, in a long Petrofina tradition of clannishness, got his first job at Petrofina through a board member who happened to be his godfather. Wolters took over the wreckage at war's end with a shrewd entrepreneur's eye for opportunity instead of salvage. Since crude oil was cheap and abundant, he ordered Petrofina to forget production, buy its oil from other companies and concentrate on expanding its sales outlets. Petrofina expanded by buying up existing chains (such as British...
...called "company slogan" is elaborately whimsical: "If you're driving down the road, and you see a Fina station is on your side so you don't have to make a U-turn through traffic and there aren't six cars waiting and you need gas or something, please stop in." With the help of California's chirpy ad agency Weiner & Gossage, Petrofina spoofs competitors' seemingly endless additives by transporting its gas in pink tank trucks and giving away "Pink Air-the additive of the future." Petrofina reports a healthy rise in U.S. profits...
...U-Turn. El Loophole stems from a 1959 presidential proclamation that put rigid quotas on oil imported into the U.S. by ship, but none on imported oil coming in by land. The exemption made for over land imports was intended to placate Canada, which currently exports about 89 million bbl. of oil a year to the U.S. But when he read through the fine print of the 1959 proclamation, Hofmokel, who emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1923 and has been director of the Port of Brownsville since 1936, decided that it could equally well be applied to Mexico...
...Matamoros just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. Unloaded under U.S. customs supervision into bonded tanks, the oil is transferred into tank trucks, which immediately set off on the eight-mile run to the Gateway Bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros. Once they reach Matamoros, the trucks make a wide U-turn and swing back onto the bridge, where U.S. customs officers now accept their cargo as Mexican oil imported by overland means. Forty minutes after the trucks are first loaded, they are back at the Brownsville docks, where their cargo is ultimately loaded aboard U.S. tankers headed for East Coast...