REAL ESTATE: Bomb Shelter

As a precaution against A-bombs, the Esso Standard Oil Co. last week announced that it is setting up emergency offices on a 50-acre tract near Morristown, N.J., 35 miles from its Manhattan headquarters in Rockefeller Center. Esso will equip its new offices with typewriters, files, microfilmed records. If an "acute deterioration of international relations" makes Manhattan look unhealthy, the company will move a clerical staff to the country offices, rotate its top officials between the two headquarters.

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