Word: panthaleon
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Died. Jan Carl Van Panthaleon Bar on Eck, 84, founder and former president (1923-36) of Shell Union Oil Co., U.S. branch of the vast Royal Dutch/ Shell complex, a Dutch nobleman's son who in 1911 was sent across the Atlantic to investigate the possibilities for a foreign company in a land already rich in oil, tapped enough Stateside wells and strung enough competitive gas stations across the continent to make Shell a giant of U.S. industry (it now ranks seventh in oil, 15th among all U.S. companies); of lung cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
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