Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 200 corporations reporting, only six were in the red. About 60% of the rest showed gains. The oil industry, which was able to increase production with little rise in costs, was well out in front. Typical: Sunray Oil Corp., with a profit of $4,126,025, was up 98% over the same quarter last year...
Modern Machlavelli. Franco emerges as Machiavelli's most finished 20th Century disciple. He got what he wanted-if not when he wanted it, at least in time to stave off internal disaster: U.S. oil and wheat when the U.S. and its allies needed both; German weapons and aviation gasoline when Hitler had barely enough for his own forces. How did he do it? As Feis carefully shows, by threats, by false promises, by outright lies, by playing the hopes & fears of the democracies against those of Hitler, and always by beautifully timed dissimulation...
...forestall such dissatisfaction at Union Oil, Taylor has leased company-owned service stations to former employees, thus making them partners in the enterprise. He encourages drillers to set themselves up as contractors for Union Oil. His own employees are kept informed of company affairs by a rain of management bulletins...
Fast-moving Mr. Taylor's liking for keeping everyone stirred up sometimes palls on his underlings. Once when a visitor asked what all the uproar was in Taylor's office, a bored stenographer answered: "It's just Reese making a new kind of oil again: turmoil...
...parents, though they never returned to the U.S., firmly refused to think of themselves as expatriates. The children, too, still consider themselves Americans. Papa, unable to get bourbon, made his mint juleps with French brandy, sold U.S. cottonseed oil with enthusiasm and regularly leafed through Southern history. As for Mamma, nothing cheered her so much as an American visitor. Writes daughter Anne: "She felt herself to be an island around which surged forty million incurious French. . . . When she spoke of herself as a Southerner, these foreigners understood her to mean South America and that was a bad start, so Mamma...