About this Vintage Print Ad
A color illustrated ad showing supplies and workers being unloaded from an airplane in New Guinea. The copy explains how aviation transported an entire mining town by air into the jungles of New Guinea, including dredges, a hydro-electric plant, tractors, cows, chickens, and materials for dam building. It emphasizes that Socony-Vacuum lubricating oils helped make the airfreighting operation possible by ensuring smooth, safe, constant flying and supporting vital lubrication needs for heavy equipment.
- Brand: Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
- Product: Socony-Vacuum lubricating oil
- Tagline: Out of the Sky CAME COWS.. DREDGES.. MEN
- Publication: Fortune
- Year: 1935
Objects in the advertisement: airplane, men, wooden crate, cargo, ropes, dredge parts, field, hills, sky, logo
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