Word: geologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used Ohio Match's voting power to elect himself to Northern Pacific's board of directors, and began making his presence felt. Simon insisted that Northern Pacific's haphazard way of handling its oil leases be improved, got the board to hire Dallas' famed geologist E. De Golyer (TIME, March 24) to survey the railroad's oil lands, and brought in Standard Oil Co. of California's former assistant vice president LeRoy Hines as a new Nipper officer in charge of oil. When Nipper's stockholders hold their annual meeting next fortnight, Simon...
...Saudi Arabia. Said Ibn Saud:"Every time there's a decision to be made . . . you have to refer it to New York ... in the future let's refer it here." Rangy, 6 ft. 2 in. President Keyes, graduate of Pomona College (1917), started as an oil geologist. Later he joined the Texas Co., one of Aramco's owners. For the last nine months, he has been assistant general manager of Texaco's producing department...
This is the opinion of L. Donald Lect, professor of Geology, and C. Wroe Wolfe, Boston University geologist. They point out that the Houses, the Business School, and Soldiers Field are built upon filled in ground, over what used to be the Charles River. While the foundations of all these buildings reach below this soft ground into glacial residue material underneath, they are not as earthquake-resistant as bedrock and other base materials...
...Stock Exchange, St. Regis Paper Co., which owns some nearby land, became the heaviest-traded stock, gained more than two points. Gulf and Standard of Indiana, which own leases near by, got ready to sink wells of their own. "The well blew its top," said Alabama's state geologist, Dr. Walter B. Jones, "and all the oil people blew their tops...
...Michigan mine operator, Carlson is a first-rate geologist who has taught at the University of Michigan, knows Eskimo, and is a veteran of two major expeditions to Greenland. In 1937 he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, served as professor and director of admissions until World War II called him to Washington. Finally, after three years as a top consultant on Arctic affairs, ex-Colonel Carlson was ready for a presidency-first at the University of Delaware, then at Vermont...