Business: Dinner Talk

Talking at Duluth, Minn., last week, at a dinner to his veteran employes, Chairman Robert Wright Stewart of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana said: "The Standard Oil Co. of Indiana is the largest manufacturer of gasoline in the world, yet alone we could not supply the demand of the 11 states in the Middle West in which we market our products. If we had a monopoly we would not know what to do with it. I suspect our enhanced problems of production and distri- bution would drive some of us to an early grave."...

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