General Motors and Standard Oil of New Jersey jointly control Ethyl Gasoline Corp. Ethyl Gas owns patents on a fluid—chief components are tetraethyl lead and ethylene dibromide—which reduces knocking ...

The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey has a plant at Bayway, N. J. There last week a man suddenly became raving mad. He was taken to a hospital in Manhattan where he soon died. Others became affected.

Stone is author of “American Poison,” about the deadly legacy of leaded gasoline and the pioneering woman and scientist who fought against it. In the spring of 1945, Alfred P. Sloan, the former CEO of ...