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...Little Indians. Last week Colombia's National Ethnological Institute had new hope of getting to know the Motilones. A nine-year-old Motilon boy recently led a settler near Petrolea to a hut in the jungle. In it were two dead Indians and a 15-year-old boy who was almost dead. The nine-year-old and 15-year-old were taken to the hospital of the Colombian Petroleum Co. While they were being nursed back to strength, Ethnologists Jean Caudmont and Francisco Vélez Arango of Bogotá hurried to Petrolea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jungle Boys | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...interest in a new company which will modernize and operate two ANIC refineries, with a combined daily capacity of 16,000 barrels, at Leghorn and Bari. Caltex Oil Products Ho., joint subsidiary of the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, bought an interest in Italy's Petrolea S.A., subsidiary of FIAT. Caltex will build a $15 million plus, 10,000-daily-barrel refinery in the Po Valley. Like Standard's new Italian reineries, Caltex will process crude from Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...From the Petrolea pumping station at the Barco field the pipe line snaked up 5,400 feet over the Eastern Andes, then down through miles of rotting jungle to the sea, thrice crossed the Magdalena River or its branches. It cost Cap Rieber and Socony-Vacuum a cold $40,000,000 ($18,000,000 for the pipe line; $22,000,000 for development work). "Hell!" says Cap Rieber, "if they wanted to move the Chrysler Building to Colombia, we'd do it -if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: The Barco | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...lumber, coal, mineral ores, petroleum. Chief weakness of Italy's war machine is her great lack of coal and petroleum in commercial quantities. It is known that the Soviet Naphtha Syndicate of Moscow, official distributor of Soviet oil, has set up a subsidiary company in Italy known as Petrolea. Observers guessed that Petrolea will be given the job of stocking the enormous oil reservoirs which Italy's army and navy are now building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Liubimov Miracle | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

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