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Plumb Crazy. Most of the companies still trying to operate are British, e.g., Traders Jardine, Matheson & Cox, and Butterfield & Swire, and the British-American Tobacco Co. There are a few American interests still functioning, but they are under the same pressures. Example: the Communists are trying to make four U.S. banks pay off their depositors in the same way as the British banks. But in this the Reds will probably fail, since the dollar deposits are in America and the U.S. Treasury refuses to permit delivery of the funds to Chinese mainland branches. The only Western firm in Shanghai that...
...chairman, while Drake became executive committee chairman. Gulf's new president is William K. Whiteford, 52, who in the early '205 started as a roughneck in the Southern California oilfields, rose rapidly in production jobs with independents, was chairman and president of Canada's British-American Oil Co., Ltd. in 1951 when he quit to join Gulf as executive vice president...
Last week in London, the English-Speaking Union announced a joint British-American project on the points of greatest friction in public opinion between the U.S. and the Commonwealth The union might well start with the British press where the job of reporting what the U.S. is like has hardly begun...
Denver's own Denver-Julesburg basin, where oil is found at such relatively shallow depths (3,000 -6,500 ft.), is a driller's paradise. Sterling, Col., where British-American oil brought in the discovery well two years ago, has since jumped in population from 7,470 to more than 10,000, and 160 more producing wells have been brought...
Conant claimed that if a community of understanding among university scholars and administrators could be developed, "one more massive stone would be placed in the foundation of good British-American relations...