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SOCONY-VACUUM OIL CO. will follow Esso Standard Oil Co. (formerly Standard Oil of New Jersey) in changing its name to reflect the trademark on its products. The company will change to Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc., to tie in with its Mobilgas, Mobiloil, Mobilheat products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...surveys of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the most complete ever issued for the area. Famous names packed away in this geographer's time capsule: Franklin D. Roosevelt Sea; Ickes Mountain; Cordell Hull Glacier. Eminent names: Rockefeller Plateau; Sulzberger Bay; Edsel Ford Ranges. Other names: Mobiloil Bay; Hearst Land; Paul Block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Antarctic Mementos | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary of $25,000, will broadcast in turn for Wheaties, Mobiloil and Mobilgas, Ivory Soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: COMPLIMENTS OF WHEATIES ET AL. | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Discoveries. Wilkins discovered that Graham land was an icebound group of islands, now provisionally called the Antarctic Archipelago. He named new places after friends and backers?explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Flyer Carl Ben Eielson. Publisher William Randolph Hearst, and Geographers Finley and Bowman; also Lockheed (Aircraft), Mobiloil (Vacuum-Oil Co.), (Wright) Whirlwind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying the Antarctic | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Last week, rumor linked two old Standard Oil units in a $1,000,000,000 merger. Oldest (1866) of existing oil companies, Vacuum Oil Co. was reported ready and anxious to unite with Standard Oil Co. of New York. As Vacuum makes lubricants (Gargoyle Mobiloil) and Standard of New York makes fuel (Socony gasoline), the two companies do not compete. Hence, the Department of Justice may approve their reunion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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