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...Million Cancellation. There has been more coming than going. Already in the foundation stage are the buildings of the Bell System, Du Pont. Eastman Kodak, Electric Power & Light. Ford. Festival of Gas, IBM, General Motors, Sinclair Oil, Travelers Insurance, and the heliport. The international exhibitors are somewhat farther behind; 65 foreign exhibitors have declared their "intent" to be present. Of these, at least 35 have signed up for specific space, 17 have submitted designs. and two - Hong Kong and Vatican City* - have started test borings. Altogether, 83% of international area space has been allocated, 71% of the industrial area...
Thirty-one years ago, when California's Richfield Oil Co. collapsed from reckless overexpansion and feckless management, giants scrambled for the pieces. Among the contenders was the late Harry Ford Sinclair, who hustled in from the east in his company Fokker to announce: "Gentlemen, I am in California and I am in to stay...
...Sinclair stayed long enough to pluck Richfield out of the expectant hands of Standard Oil of California. Unable to outbid SoCal by himself, he teamed up with Manhattan's Cities Service Co.; between them, the two eastern oil companies and their subsidiaries eventually bought up 62% of the stock in the reorganized Richfield Oil Corp. Last week. 26 years after the deal went through, the Justice Department hauled Richfield. Cities Service and Sinclair Oil into Los Angeles federal court to answer a civil suit alleging violation of the antitrust laws...
...service stations changed hands or closed down, the highest turnover rate in U.S. retailing. In Chicago, where the battle is sharpest, half of the stations changed hands. The war has hit the major oil companies where it hurts most: the profits of Gulf, Sun, Indiana Standard and Sinclair were down by 9% to 24% in this year's first half...
...letters begin with the boy's notes from Phillips Exeter, where young Rufus had gone on a scholarship. He is reading and liking Beau Geste, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, finding Sinclair Lewis "turning rancid'' in Elmer Gantry, moving on to the discovery of the "terrific" Ernest Hemingway (who does, however, earn a boy's stern moral disapproval as "one of the crowd of degenerate Americans who settled . . . in Paris after the war"). Dreiser's English is "bum," and John Dos Passos rouses a boy's puritanism with the "unalleviatedly filthy" Manhattan Transfer...