Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burly (6 ft. 4 in., 240 lbs.) Oilman Taylor was out to make two points. The first was an item of interest to stockholders: despite Union Oil's whopping $18,910.860 profit, the highest in its history, the company still had to dip into reserves to pay for the year's expansion, research and development. The other point was for U.S. industry generally: businessmen must find more effective means of telling the public of their problems, successes, failures. Taylor thought this important enough to broadcast the film to cities where Union Oil has few shareholders, no employees...
...United States, who progressed from rags to riches-and then to Sing Sing for his part in history's biggest* bank crash; of a ruptured artery; in Miami Beach. Out of jail in 1935, he headed for Texas with $75.74, started all over again, became a major independent oilman...
...promoters often conflict with their private interests. Last year the Chamber campaigned for more highways, to be financed by a boost in the gasoline tax. Oilmen who are members of the Chamber not only opposed the idea, they spent thousands to fight it. Chamber President Clarence Beesemyer is an oilman himself (vice president of General Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.). But he helped the Chamber fight the program through the state legislature...
...Ralph K. Davies, former Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War, was an "insider" (Oilman Davies left the Administration 13 months...
...winning most of the fights he got into, Tulsa Oilman William Grove Skelly built one of the nation's best-integrated, best-run independents. Nevertheless, his Skelly Oil Co. almost went under in the lean-pursed '30s. Hard-hitting, fast-thinking Bill Skelly raised the cash to save the company, but he lost control to J. Paul Getty, sporty Los Angeles oilman and Manhattan hotel owner (the Pierre). Skelly, staying on as president of his company, a subsidiary of Getty's Mission Corp., in time became Mission's president also...