Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish importer's request for a large quantity of crude oil. In midafternoon Getty received a distinguished visitor: John D. Rockefeller III, 51, scion of an older oil dynasty, who came to ask his financial support for a $75 million art center in Manhattan. Getty expressed interest, made no commitment. Swiftly he worked through his business mail, answering the letters by scribbling a notation in the margins, then popping them into envelopes to mail back. Shortly after dark he left the hotel and mailed his letters, trusting no one else to perform this important job. Then...
...Thrifty. Paul's first divorce shocked his father, a Methodist turned Christian Scientist, but he had recovered enough by 1928 to sell his son a one-third interest in George F. Getty, Inc. for $1,000,000. Just three weeks later Paul took his third wife, Adolphine Helmle, 18, daughter of a German industrialist. That was too much for George Getty. When he died in 1930, he left Paul only $500,000 of his $10 million estate. Most of the rest went to Paul's mother, a tough-minded old lady of sturdy Scots-Irish stock...
...applied against 55?-per-bbl. royalties and 25% of the company's net profits from Neutral Zone production. In 1949, "in the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate," Pacific Western and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed an agreement giving Getty one-half interest in the Neutral Zone for 60 years. Getty sent son George to run the new venture, pumped $7,500,000 into drilling and exploration (Getty shares such costs, and all oil removed, on a fifty-fifty basis with Aminoil...
...producing 100,000 bbl. daily, another 60 that have struck oil but are shut in until a bigger pipeline is laid and Getty's refinery goes on stream. Begrudgingly, Aminoil has conceded Getty's wisdom, itself is drilling the Eocene formation. Meantime, Getty has acquired a .4167% interest in the Iranian Consortium, good for about 700 million bbl. in reserves...
These recommendations are based on the committee's firm belief that "many able students are not doing their best under existing conditions because they are not sufficiently engaged or challenged." This situation reflects, the group claims, "primarily a failure of the present educational process to engage their interest." Although the group sees high quality lectures remaining a "crucial part of the Harvard curriculum," it also aims at "more individualized instruction and less dependence on the lecture and course examination system...