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...bigger slice of Allied business-especially of finished petroleum products, since France's refineries are now in Nazi hands. One Western Hemisphere producer knew for sure that it had lost a market when Italy entered the war. Soon after Mussolini had made his radio speech, Jesus Silva Herzog, No. 1 oil salesman of Mexico, announced that Mexican shipments of oil to Italy (15,000 barrels daily under contract) had stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Civilization's Cradle Snatched | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Oil Deal, Oil Note | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...hope of cutting down automobile fatalities on the nation's highways, the Yale Institute of Human Relations is backing Harry De Silva, former head of the Harvard Traffic Bureau, in an attempt to add further tests to the state driving examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News From Other College Campuses | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Fred Rogoesin '39, Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Sidney Rsenberg '40, Sidney D. Ross '39, Leon N. Satenstein '39, Abraham Schneider '41, Charles J. Shagoury '40, Ely A. Shamieh '41, Harold S. Shapero '41, Bernard D. Shea '41, Harry M. Shooshan Jr. '39, William Siegel '39, Francis E. Silva Jr. '41, Richard V. Smith '41, Irving H. Soden '39, Samuel Soll '40, Leon D. Starr '40, paul K. Stumpt '41, Charles G. Swain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 206 SCHOLARSHIPS ARE ANNOUNCED BY THE CORPORATION | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Fourteen years ago a young Brazilian, Virgilino Ferreira da Silva, persuaded the trusting Assembly of the State of Pernambuco to make him an honorary captain in its constabulary so that he might avenge his father who had been murdered in Pernambuco's hinterland. The Assembly made a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Continued Story | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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