Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the blockade and the club's magnificent stand of magnolias, Ike and his party relaxed. They were quartered in Bobby Jones's white-frame cottage. General Ike got in a few licks at his hobby, oil painting. In the evening, the women slipped downtown to a movie, while the men played bridge with Clifford Roberts, chairman of the club's executive committee, and shot the breeze. One morning Ike gleefully sank a birdie 2 on the short fourth hole, finished the round with a creditable...
...Bill Pawley resigned, he had little to show for his two years-except for his important spadework for the Rio and Bogota conferences. But his friends believed that he left behind him ideas which would live and grow. Already Brazil had shown itself more receptive to U.S. investment in oil development. Pawley had tried to interest U.S. iron and steel men in the possibilities of Itabira (TIME, April 5). Some day that work might bear fruit...
...Union Oil Co. of California took to television (in nine cities) to tell stockholders and the general public about its operations, explain the company's annual financial report (see BUSINESS...
Reopened Door. After months of negotiations Cities Service Co., and Antonio Bermudez, boss of Mexico's government-owned oil monopoly Pemex, signed a historic agreement in Mexico City. The deal brought a major U.S. oil company into Mexican oil development for the first time since 1938, when expropriation drove most foreign companies out. Under the deal Cities Service will set up a Mexican subsidiary (Mexico-Cities Service Petroleum Corp.) to provide the capital, and presumably the machinery and technical help, for Pemex's development of a million-acre tract in northeastern Mexico...
...television screens in nine cities last week, an announcer introduced something new in business procedure: "This is a report by Union Oil Co. It is the story of $171 million . . . where it came from and where it went...