Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific issue is a simmering deal to build a $15 million plant to refine Venezuelan crude oil in Jamaica. Barbados-born, U.S.-naturalized Oilman Frank Desmond St. Hilaire proposes to finance a 16,500-bbl.-a-day refinery at Kingston, bankrolled by the U.S.'s Colorado Oil & Gas Corp. But Jamaica's legislature must pass a bill giving him a 15-year monopoly on oil refining in Jamaica-plus enticing tax concessions...
...rest after winning the governorship of New York State, Nelson Rockefeller went to a country that looms large in his career. Venezuela is the home of Creole Petroleum Corp., most profitable affiliate of the Rockefeller-founded Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and he once served on Creole's board. But Venezuelans rarely think of him as an oilman; instead, he is the single man who has striven hardest to raise the country's standard of living...
...white stucco colonial house with red tile roof built around a swimming pool-at La Mona, a 1,200-acre spread of potato and cattle land 90 miles southwest of Caracas. His farms are no mere rich man's fancy. Originally developed by the International Basic Economy Corp. (IBEC) that he founded to invest in Latin American development, the first farm lost so much money in a try at large-scale agriculture that Rockefeller bought it from IBEC, ran it himself. He put it on a paying basis, and at the same time demonstrated the raising of tick-resistant...
...morning last week, the staff of McCall's-The Magazine of Togetherness-began to come apart. Up to the desk of McCall Corp. President Arthur B. Langlie stalked Editor-Publisher Otis Lee Wiese with a one-sentence resignation. Ten minutes later, Advertising Director Bill Carr (like Wiese, a McCall board member and vice president) was in with his: "I understand that Otis Wiese is no longer with the McCall Corp. . . . This eliminates the last hope I've had for professional management in the company...
...Little Rock, Ark. as a stunt to publicize gas. The city could not legally accept, but Stephens had six gaslights put up near city hall. So many householders liked their soft glow that Stephens decided to mass-produce the lamps through the company's subsidiary, Arkla Air Conditioning Corp...