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...wilderness setting. But the surrounds are graffiti-free and clean-quite different from most remote settlements. The children are managing a vegetable patch, dwarfed by tall sunflowers; the playground equipment is still functioning. In Miss Kristina's class for little ones-Adiliah, Adoniah, Camille, Charlotte, Dudley, Elaine, Garry, Shonetta, Sunray, Tuwannah, Vaughan and Vondella-they are playing a memory game with shapes. All the kids appear to be well-fed, with a piece of fruit never far out of reach (Boyle has to hide the supplies). At playtime, games are spirited and fair. A covered basketball court (like an oasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool School In the Desert | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...more than 100 industries, ranging from glass to pesticides, fertilizers to soaps. And further uses for boron are being found every day. Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) has developed a boron additive for gasoline to provide better economy and lower engine maintenance, is marketing it through Richfield Oil Corp. and Sunray Oil Corp. Though boron for gasoline this year would account for only $500,000 of all borax sales, U.S. Borax hopes to sell the boron additive directly to dealers, swell boron gas into a healthy market. Boron is also being carefully researched for use in new plastics with high-temperature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Element of Tomorrow | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Tourneau, Inc. maintains full-time chaplains at both its Vicksburg, Miss, and Longview, Tex. plants for on-the-job spiritual guidance; the chaplains also hold weekly services which 85% of the workers attend. Tulsa's Sunray-Mid Continent Oil Co. has employed a chaplain since 1947, and his advice is so heavily in demand that he will soon get a second assistant. The story is the same at San Diego's Solar Aircraft, Dallas' John E. Mitchell Co., Dearborn Stove Co., Ohio's Pioneer Rubber Co. At Solar Aircraft, the program was so well liked that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Help to Labor Relations | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...MERGER is being talked over by Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. and Sunray Oil Corp. Both firms would benefit by combining. Sunray has more reserves (more than 359 million bbls. of oil, 1.5 trillion cu. ft. of gas) than it can process, and Mid-Continent must buy most of the oil it processes. Combined assets, if the two merge: $475 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...Worries. With Barnsdall, Sunray will have total assets-of more than $250 million, more than 3,400 producing oil and gas wells, and big leases in the promising new oil pools-Texas' Scurry County and Canada's Alberta fields. Floyd Odium himself thought enough of Sunray's potentialities to keep an option (until Dec. i) to buy 750,000 shares of its common stock at 12, about where it was last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Bargain Counter | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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