To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
Standard Oil of Indiana (predecessor to BP) had a similar policy. Female ancestors were ‘let go’ when they got married.
13 posted on
11/02/2011 7:04:10 PM PDT by
posterchild
(I'm old enough to remember when journalists bothered to look things up on wikipedia.)
To: posterchild
I thought Standard Oil became Esso (S.O.) and then eventually Exxon after the breakup.
35 posted on
11/02/2011 7:53:50 PM PDT by
Sgt_Schultze
(A half-truth is a complete lie)
To: posterchild
Standard Oil of Indiana (predecessor to BP) had a similar policy. Female ancestors were ‘let go’ when they got married. I believe it was the airlines who were most famous for this policy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0uyIWOU024
47 posted on
11/02/2011 9:13:50 PM PDT by
cynwoody
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