Word: demands
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Truman then appointed Wallgren to the empty chairmanship of the FPC, and Wallgren promptly delivered the commission into Kerr's hands. Supported by Wimberly and Bailing, Wallgren reversed the Truman veto with the August 22 ruling, allowing the increased prices demanded by "short-armed" producers like the Phillips Oil Company. This action brought justified complaints from the "integrated" companies, whose prices are still controlled by the FPC. And, what is more dangerous, Wallgren's decision may act as an opening wedge for other public public utilities to demand less price regulation by the government...
...hunches, but the cold facts of the world demand for oil are behind Gulf's expansion. Swensrud, who has already built the world's largest "cat" (catalytic) cracker at Gulf's main refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, will now build a still bigger one (63,000 bbls. a day) at Gulf's Philadelphia refinery. He will also build the world's biggest (125,000 bbls. per day) atmospheric and vacuum crude-oil "topping" unit (which skims off the lighter components of crude). The result will boost the military's supply of high-octane gasoline...
High Stakes. Swensrud, calculating that U.S. oil demand would rise at least 3% a year for the next decade, decided that Gulf's only limit was the amount of new oil that could be found. The company wangled new concessions in Tunisia, Mozambique, launched extensive drilling in Canada's new fields, where Gulf has one of the world's biggest gas fields, in Alberta. He built new refineries in Venezuela and Kuwait, in three years boosted Gulf's Kuwait production from 23 million to 66 million bbls. annually. He boosted Gulf's world output from...
Militant feminists who make a habit of storming the annual meetings of big corporations to demand the election of a woman director usually get nothing but a polite brush-off. But when the demand was raised at RCA's meeting last May, Chairman David Sarnoff, who never underestimates the power of a woman, had a ready answer: RCA's subsidiary, NBC, had already named Mrs. Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-Wellesley president, ex-WAVE Commander, to its board. Moreover, said Sarnoff, she had proved so valuable that RCA would name her to its own board at the first opportunity...
Churchill, if he won, would not be enough to offset the unions' inevitable demand for higher wages; Beer does not think he could unify-the country as he did during World War II. The Conservative leader has offered to take Laborites into his cabinet--if he is elected--but Beer figures that Labor "might want the Conservatives alone to take the blame for the rough winter coming up." More-over, this is an old Churchill tactic, and Beer doubts very much that Labor would join up, in any case. "Even in 1940 it took Munich and Hitler on the march...