Word: silva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sinclair deal was the personal triumph of Jesus Silva Herzog, general manager of the Mexican Petroleum Distribution Agency, the Government monopoly. He got the Sinclair interests to surrender all claims arising from Mexico's seizure of their properties in exchange for $9,000,000 cash (payable over three years) plus 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 barrels of oil to be supplied by the Mexican Government over a six-year period at a price reputed to net Sinclair a $7,000,000 profit. Jesus Silva Herzog went on to claim that he had sold or was in course...