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...Socony's President Benjamin Brewster Jennings, 53, and apple-cheeked Chairman George V. Holton, 61, have changed all that. In the six postwar years, they have plowed $570 million into exploring and developing new fields, drilled 3,686 producing wells and 628 dry ones, developed more new oil reserves than any other U.S. company. As a result, Socony's proved domestic reserves have climbed from 1,121,000,000 bbls. in 1946 to 1,641,000,000. It has tapped an immense pool in its Pegasus Field in Texas, is one of the biggest explorers in North Dakota...
...Brewster's Millions. Longtime associates of unassuming Brewster Jennings fondly call him "a rich man's son who made good in spite of it." Both his paternal and maternal grandfathers, Benjamin Brewster and Oliver B. Jennings, had helped stake John D. Rockefeller, became his partners in running the Standard Oil Trust and left huge fortunes.* As one of their heirs, young Jennings, after graduation from Yale in 1920, had no trouble landing a job with Socony (then Standard Oil Co. of New York) as a clerk in the marine department. Soon he was purchasing agent, then real-estate...
...THILIP BREWSTER...
Fairbank and Martin repeatedly rebuked Brewster's attempt to blame the Democratic administration for the China Casio...
...Brewster repeatedly said that there must be a minimum of interference in Japanese problems. He spoke against Martin's proposal to send economic aid to Japan "with no strings attached...