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Voices in the Night. On his 40-day, 4,000-mile journey, Chichester not only missed being run down; he saw only three other ships. Once a Russian tanker, jammed with radar gear, circled him cautiously, apparently decided he was not a Polaris sub, and steamed away. One dusk, said Chichester, "I thought I heard voices. I poked my head out of the cabin. Alongside was a freighter; people were sitting on the bridge, having evening drinks." Battered by huge waves, isolated by fog, Chichester slept only four to six hours a night, fought his loneliness by writing...
...AGAINST RED OIL will be waged by Western oil companies to prevent Russian crude from entering their markets. Three companies (Shell, Standard Vacuum, Caltex) told India they will not refine Russian crude oil sold to Indian government. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) warned owners and tanker brokers, in effect, it will not do business now or in future with anybody who charters or sells tankers to the Soviet Union or its satellites...
Obliging Greeks. To supply the 20 million bbl. of oil that Cuba burns each year, between 15 and 25 tankers will have to travel constantly between the Black Sea and Cuba. A group of "golden Greek" tanker operators, led by the wealthy Stavros Niarchos, has signed an agreement to charter between 80 and 120 tankers to the Soviet Union. Niarchos piously denies that any of the ships will be used to carry oil to Cuba-but, of course, the deal frees Russian tankers to do the job. Even so, Castro could be heading for trouble. On one of his recent...
Cricket Blues. Today Loudon rules over 250,000 employees spread throughout an empire that includes wells in 17 countries, 47 refineries, the world's biggest tanker fleet (551 ships), and interests in oil companies in 76 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...
...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...