Word: oil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time last week, many a newly enfranchised voter consulted animal entrails as well as his conscience. In India the complex issues facing the world's largest democracy were being decided (see below) by an electorate which had to choose between party symbols, such as "the bullocks" and "the oil lamp," because most of its members could not read. Leaders of the young new nations would probably agree that freedom is a risky venture, more, so than they once recognized, and that their worst problems persist after the imperialists get out. Yet who among them would want to abandon their...
...striking addition to Edmonton's fast-climbing skyline. Riding a surge of prosperity that began when U.S. servicemen poured north in World War II to man the land route to Alaska and the air route to the Soviet Union, the city tapped a far richer bonanza in the oil boom that blew in ten years ago and gets bigger every year...
...population has doubled since 1947 (to 248,000), retail sales climbed 10% last year, and local boosters counted 13 major building projects started in 1956 alone. Among them: a $6,000,000 federal office building, two new $1,000,000 banks, a $2,000,000 office building for Imperial Oil Ltd., and four other office buildings of six to eleven stories. A record-shattering housing boom thrust new residential suburbs out into the prairies faster than streets and sidewalks could be built to serve them. Power lines, sewers, bus routes are growing, but never quite fast enough to keep...
...William K. Whiteford, 56, president of Gulf Oil Corp., officially becomes chief executive officer with the retirement of Sidney A. Swensrud, 56, as chairman of the board, a post that will be discontinued. Burly, aggressive Bill Whiteford, who started as an oilfield roughneck out of Stanford University, was brought into Gulf in 1951 from the presidency of Canada's British American Oil Co., Ltd., made chief administrative officer in 1953 under Swensrud, who moved up from president to board chairman. Whiteford shook up Gulf's management, strengthened its domestic and Western Hemisphere holdings, firmly but unofficially took over...
...Morgan J. Davis, 58, executive vice president of Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest U.S. domestic producer (300,000 bbl. daily), will succeed President Hines H. Baker, 63. Baker retires as president and director next month, will become a director of Humble's parent company, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). The first geologist to occupy Humble's presidency, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 190 lbs.) Morgan Davis joined Humble in 1925 after graduating from the University of Texas, left to become resident geologist in Sumatra for a Dutch petroleum firm, returned to Humble in 1934 as district geologist...