Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were neatly stamped. The boxes were boosted into a moving van which rumbled out of town that evening. In the 6 a. m. quiet of Saturday morning the Coryell staff reassembled with their families, piled into 13 automobiles festooned with banners and wound off in a honking caravan toward Colorado Springs, 600 mi. away. A cameraman hired by L. L. Coryell & Son stood beside the road to film the spectacle -a whole business going away for the summer...
When the vacationists arrived in Colorado Springs they found desks and telephones installed in the high-school gymnasium. Before bedtime Sunday night the gym had been converted into a business office. Coryell workers and their families then retired to houses or apartments rented for them by the company. Bright & early Monday morning work began...
...Coryell & Son is an oil marketing company with 486 cut-rate filling stations in about 400 towns and cities in 14 Midwest States. Its highly efficient exodus may have seemed remarkable to Colorado Springs, but in Lincoln people have learned to expect almost anything from a management whose self-advertising is continuous and unique. For 36 years Nebraskans have lacked no reminders of the beautiful friendship between Levi Leland Coryell Sr. and Levi Leland Coryell Jr., who are respectively president and general manager of the company. It started soon after the company did, in Auburn, Neb. when Junior Coryell...
...their bright orange uniforms and to swarm over each car as if it were a racer rolling into the pits. They are also under strict instructions "never to engage a lady in conversation only as she leads." During the two months that the Coryell offices will remain in Colorado Springs, each staff member will receive $50 extra pay "for their good times." But the office vacation takes the place of the usual two-weeks-off-with...
Joseph E. Upson, Geology 1 section man, has returned to Colorado for the second year to map the San Juan district and investigation geologic structures of that area. Likewise in Colorado this summer is L. L. Ray, a graduate student who is working at the Lindonmeyer site. Another graduate student, W. T. Pecora, is working in the Bearpaw Mountains of Montana...