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My dad once received an inappropriate form letter from Texaco in the 1970's and never went to a Texaco station since.

Bill returned to Texaco Towers the following afternoon, with a big smile on his face.

Reads like a clever short story > Bill returned to Texaco Towers the following afternoon, with a big smile on his face.

This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.

Those seven were Anglo-Persian (now BP), Gulf + Standard of California + Texaco (now Chevron), Shell, Standard of New Jersey + Standard of New York (Exxon).

I was told the Greyhound left from a Texaco station right off the highway.

* Procter & Gamble Company Sears Roebuck & Company Texaco Incorporated Union Carbide United Technologies Corporation U.

Mobil and Texaco were in the top of the list in 1962, and now neither exists independently (merged into Exxon and Chevron resp.) so arguably they aren't in the list anymore.

Sadly few of us have options to get internet aside from Comcast, where as in the gas station scenario we could easily stop patronizing BP or Texaco or Shell or whoever.

When I drove into Poznan, Poland about 25 years ago and the first texaco station had just opened it looked really strange, a piece of high tech colour in the middle of a gray and drab city.

Strictly speaking, it was a two-story building behind the Texaco station: > There was a Texaco gas station at the corner, and a two-story, small, brown, wood paneled office building behind it, the kind that might house some accountants or insurance agents.

Chomsky's first article, which he wrote when he was 10 was about the Spanish Civil War, he was reporting that Texaco the oil company was supplying the nationalists with oil, despite their being an official embargo, and the US government knew about it.

Because of the proximity of the gas station and the perch on the second story, as well as the sonic overlap between "Taco" and "Texaco", the building quickly became known as "Texaco Towers".

Fandango Loopt Amazon Exxon Texaco Google (most people had no clue what a Googol was) Pepsi Nike Coke Wachovia Verizon Xerox Sunoco Sysco Alcoa Aetna Tesoro Exelon Kroger Nucor Pfizer the list goes on and on By the way, I know there are many very clever "spins" on these names to help them relate to their products, but upon first look this isn't evident.

> US scrap metal companies were furiously selling scrap to Germany & Japan in 1939 In Herman Wouk's novel The Winds of War, an admiral, aboard an aircraft carrier near Pearl Harbor in 1940 or -41, groused to his officers that (paraphrasing from memory) "sooner or later the [Japanese] are going to come steaming over the horizon, burning Texaco oil and shooting pieces of old Buicks at us."

In fact, their NiMH battery patents were sold to Texaco/Chevron who held them close and never let anyone use them.

What Chevron/Texaco did to Ecuador makes the BP accident look like a pan of bacon.

By 1911, market share had plunged from 90% to 64% as competitors like Gulf/Texaco emerged and new oil fields broke its grip.