Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chris also seemed a bit odd, at first sight, to Standard Oil Heiress Mary Caroline Pratt when she met him on a blind date. "He was a great, gangling thing with a cap and plus fours," she recalls. "All I could do was stand and giggle." Four years later they were married...
...robed sheiks but zealous dark-suited young Arab technicians dominated the first Arab Petroleum Congress in Cairo last week. The 420 delegates looked at the $6,000,000 worth of machinery exhibits and held seminars in drilling techniques-but their real interest was oil politics. The Arabs were out for more money and more control over their oil (the Middle East has two-thirds of the world's supply). In the Cairo hotel lobbies, the man everyone wanted to see was a Saudi Arabian with a bright, quick smile, and a profile as sharp as a scimitar...
Native's Return. Abdullah Tariki, chief of the Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, is the unquestioned spokesman of the new generation of ambitious Arab experts in oil. "Absolutely incorruptible," say U.S. oilmen, who quiver at some of Tariki's ideas. "The only Arab who knows anything about the oil business...
...most amusing speech of the evening came as Dutch Holland of the Red Cross gave Ulen a citation and medal for his many years as an instructor of life-saving. He recalled Ulen's old habit of giving his swimmers a potion resembling castor oil before each race...
...rates by $14 million, Examiner Zwindler rejected firmly a flock of hypothetical costs totaling $35 million, which Phillips wanted included in its rate base. Chief among these was an item of $11 million for federal income taxes that Phillips does not have to pay because of the 27½% oil and gas depletion allowance. Phillips argued that it still should be allowed to charge customers for the nonexistent...