Word: mccollum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goldovsky has assembled a highly capable young company of solo singers and choristers; and some of them can even act. In this production, John McCollum is as fine a Count Ory as one could want. Ewan Harbrecht, as Countess Adele, has a small but beautifully trained voice, and tosses off all her demanding fioriture with complete case. Ronald Holgate (The Tutor) has a rich bass voice; all he needs now is to strengthen his bottom register. David Smith (Raimbaud) has a pleasingly full timbre, as has Doris Okerson (Ragonda) when she gets over her initial edginess...
...little jaded in the oil business after a number of years," said Continental Oil Co. President Leonard F. McCollum. "An oil well comes in, a big deal is made, it all gets to be part of the day's work. But this offshore operation staggers my imagination. Just staggers...
...Oilman McCollum had reason to be staggered last week. Eighteen miles off Jefferson Parish, La., his company brought in the deepest well (15,058 ft.) in the deepest water (97 ft.) ever drilled in offshore exploration...
...feet long, that are rammed 150 feet into the ocean floor. It cost $1,500,000, weighs 1,600 tons (as much as a destroyer), has air-conditioned barracks, a TV set, a food-packed galley, a helicopter landing spot, and is the biggest offshore rig ever built. Said McCollum: "The cost was awful. But now that we've hit one well off it, the second and third and fourth and fifth will start making it profitable. The big fields offshore will be highly profitable. If we'd missed on it, it would have been catastrophic...
...behind by its competitors. While other companies snapped up leases and bought options, Conoco refused to part with good money unless it could be sure. Since oil is usually a case of gamble or get left out, Conoco was being left out. To get fresh leadership, the directors hired McCollum, then 45 and production coordinator of giant Jersey Standard, gave him a fat stock option (which today shows a paper profit of upwards of $4,000,000), a salary of $125,000 and a free hand. Within eight years Conoco more than doubled its refinery capacity and its gross income...