Word: texaco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texaco and Socony-Vacuum the Barco oil is welcome. Both sell overseas (there is a 21? tariff on oil imports to the U. S.) and neither has enough oil for its distribution system. In a warring world they will doubtless find buyers for their Colombian oil, but may bring it to the U. S. to be refined. Last week old Virgilio Barco was many years in his grave, but his son Jorge (pronounced Horkhay) Barco, in Cúcuta, had himself a few drinks as the royalties began to accumulate...
...still has the Rockefellers, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Chrysler Corp. and other industrial giants as clients. More spectacularly successful today are such younger rivals as Edward L. Bernays (Procter & Gamble, Allied Chemical & Dye), Carl Byoir (A. & P., Goodrich, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass), Steve Hannagan (Miami Beach, Union Pacific), Benjamin Sonnenberg (Texaco, Philip Morris, Remington Rand), Bernard Lichtenberg (Swift & Co., United Brewers Industrial Foundation...
...Reinhardt (Wed. 9:30 p. m., CBS). The new Texaco hour, on which No. 1 exiled impresario presents his dramatic workshop on his first U. S.-sponsored program. Star: Cinemactress Bette Davis. Variety show performers: Cinemactress Una Merkel, Cinemactors Adolphe Menjou, Charles Ruggles, Soprano Jane Froman, Tenor Kenny Baker, David Broekman's orchestra...
Ever since 1929 Frank Hawks had been aviation's best pal and severest critic. Then he was flying for Texaco, and every push he gave aviation meant bigger gas and oil sales. Flying coast-to-coast and point-to-point faster than men had traveled such distances before, he used to crow: "That's the way the airlines could fly this route if they'd take that outside plumbing off their ships." Recent years have seen most of Frank Hawks's speed records fall to Howard Hughes, but they have also seen the "outside plumbing" disappear...
...Aboard was another air veteran-Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Test Pilot E. H. Veblen, who had ferried a DC-3 east for delivery to the Soviet's Amtorg Trading Corp. and was returning to Los Angeles. Another passenger was L. Arthur Doty, 42, Boston credit manager for Texaco, who was flying to Chicago to attend the funeral of his brother Harold, killed a few hours before in a railroad accident...