Word: davieses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the nation's 2,584,000 unemployed last month, perhaps the most distinguished was grey-haired Ralph K. Davies of Woodside, Calif. He had joined the Standard Oil Co. of California as a 16-year-old junior clerk, rose to $57,000 (a year) as senior vice president...
Last week, Ralph Davies had a big, new job, which would find him competing with Standard of California for the oil riches of the Middle East. The nation's independent oilmen had long fretted & fumed at the big-company domination of Middle East oil. Under the guidance of Davies...
Davies' new company can now almost surely count on State Department support to win concessions in two potentially oil-rich, but undeveloped Middle East territories: 1) Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; and 2) the Persian Gulf "neutral zone" jointly owned by King Ibn Saud of...
It was no accident that, even as Davies, Phillips and friends signed their final papers, Yemen's Prince Saif al-Islam Abdullah stepped from a big Phillips Petroleum Co. plane at Bartlesville. He looked just like an oilman in sheikh's clothing. For eight days he had been...
Those fields--and the men in charge of them--present a rich choice to the students. F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and critic Alfred Kazin are giving courses on American literature; Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics, and Walt W. Rostow of Oxford are lecturing on economics and...