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...elected all but one of his directors to the board. Tidewater had been sitting for years on a big cash reserve and watching the rest of the oil world go by; Getty kicked it off and got it running. He used the cash to build new tankers, expand refineries, build the Delaware refinery...
...conviction. Its task is rather to show that these factors have nothing to do with one's ethical worth or human dignity--to help the student remold his system of values so that none of these traits are the controlling factor in evaluating another human being--to deepen and expand his vision to the point, in fact, where he rejoices in human diversity and creative individuality and actively seeks it out. Social insulation, a striving for comfortable homogeneous groups, the frank institutionalization of arbitrary and unreflective prejudices--these do not contribute to that aim. Even if the racial criterion were...
...business in 1929 and, like his colleagues, often wished, as he almost went broke, that "I'd never gotten into this aviation business." Yet today, with three modern versions of its Cub plus its $34,990 twin-engined Apache, Piper is solidly in the black and ready to expand...
...Chinese bronzes. He made frequent trips to the Orient, bought only the best. In 1904 he offered his whole collection to the Government with two conditions: that the Smithsonian Institution would manage it and that he could keep it until his death. He set up a trust fund to expand the Oriental collections (he prohibited expanding his American art), then gave another $1,000,000 for a Freer Gallery building. He died 18 months before the building was completed...
...Soviet state put it together in 1923 from remnants of the revolution's Red air force. In the 1930s Stalin purged some of Aeroflot's best brains, but in World War II he outfitted Aeroflot with hundreds of U.S. lend-lease Dakotas (DC-3s), started to expand it fast to open up underdeveloped Russian areas that had no roads or rail lines...