Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Risking the wrath of nationalistic Peronistas (and nationalists in his own Radical Party), he negotiated $1 billion worth of development contracts with foreign oil companies, mostly from the U.S. (TIME, Aug. 4). Signed up were Pan American International Oil Co., Union Oil Co., Lane-Wells Co. and Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades...
...until three weeks ago, when the first U.S. oilmen from Loeb. Rhoades arrived at La Ventana oilfield in Mendoza province, did the meaning of Frondizi's deals sink home. A group of Peronista oilworkers in Mendoza gave Frondizi 48 hours to cancel the oil contracts. When Frondizi ignored their ultimatum, they struck. The national oilworkers' union then called for a nationwide walkout, and other Communist-and-Peronista-dominat-ed unions threatened a general strike...
Between World Wars, Strauss prospered in the Wall Street investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Named an AECommissioner by Harry Truman in 1946 after serving as a deskbound rear admiral in World War II, he won a reputation for independent hardheadedness by pushing for an H-bomb program in 1949 against the combined opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the General Advisory Committee. Strauss won that bitter fight (with invaluable help from Physicist Edward Teller) just in time to keep the Soviet Union from gaining an H-bomb monopoly. After 1953, as Eisenhower's AEChairman...
Both Mrs. Wheeler and Professor Newman praised the University parking lot offer as "creative thinking," but doubted that Cambridge will pay for parking yet. Professor Newman forecast trouble in connection with the Loeb Theatre project. "A lot of CCA people were shocked when they heard about...
Dean Bundy indicated yesterday that there will be no major alteration of the preliminary plans already made for the Loeb Drama Center. The general achitectural conception of the Theatre has been finished, and the firm of Hugh Stubbins and Associates will proceed at full speed to complete engineering drawings...