Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elegant, wood-paneled office in the Shell building on London's St. Helen's Court (Shell is building an unspectacular-looking 26-story headquarters on the banks of the Thames), Loudon receives a steady flow of international visitors. "This seems to be my American season," said he last week, after conferring with a stream of U.S. bankers and executives. He logs well over 150 hours of air travel a year, on a recent visit to the Middle East dined with Qatar's Sheik Ahmed (he thoughtfully brought along a rocking horse for the sheik...
...drink: Scotch and soda). He is an excellent dancer, likes to golf (in the 90s), spent a week last winter skiing in Switzerland with his wife and two of his sons, Fred, 22, and George, 17. Loudon's third son, John 24, has followed his father into Shell. (His oldest son was killed in an auto accident in Holland...
After a carefree youth traveling the Continent with his parents. Loudon studied law at Utrecht, and then, despite his father's urgings that he enter the diplomatic service, joined Shell. He spent 14 months in Venezuela, working on the rigs and derricks of Lake Maracaibo, and then returned to Holland to marry his college sweetheart, Marie van Tuyll, the slim, at tractive daughter of an aristocratic Dutch family. Reassigned to the U.S.. he worked in Boston, Houston (where his two oldest sons were born) and Los Angeles, gradually advancing in the Group's ranks...
...lands. The Group is - due in large part to his efforts - perhaps the most international group in the business world. At the last budget meeting a Swiss reported on manufacturing, a Frenchman on marketing, an American on finance, a Dutchman on exploration and production. The coordinator (a favorite Shell title) was British. Before the war the Group hired only a few foreigners and nationals, picked them chiefly on the basis of "how closely they resembled Europeans." Most executive positions were held by Europeans on what was called the "old boy" basis. A classic Shell story tells of one frantic cable...
...Group also likes its employees to wear Shell emblems in their buttonholes as symbols of international togetherness. Discrimination is strictly prohibited (though the company, like Aramco, cannot get visas to Arab countries for its Jewish employees). When a British employee in Egypt protested that he did not want to share an office with a newly promoted Egyptian, the local manager snapped: "There's a tanker leaving tomorrow...