Word: texaco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather than throw good money after bad, Socony and Texaco notified Argentina that they planned to liquidate the company. Belatedly, Argentina began offering some concessions to Ultramar. The owners replied that they would rather sell the plant for scrap than continue operating it. Last week, Argentina agreed to buy the refinery from Ultramar for 75 million pesos (some $5,360,000), about three-fourths the original investment. But the companies, barred from converting pesos into dollars, are now trying to find something to do with the money in Argentina. Said one oilman ruefully: "Instead of having a refinery which...
...future let's refer it here." Rangy, 6 ft. 2 in. President Keyes, graduate of Pomona College (1917), started as an oil geologist. Later he joined the Texas Co., one of Aramco's owners. For the last nine months, he has been assistant general manager of Texaco's producing department...
...Texaco Star Theater...
...first time since his Texaco Star Theater went on the air in 1948, Milton Berle slipped from his No. 1 TV rating for three weeks in a row. The new champion: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, with 58% of the viewing audience. Adding insult to injury, Arthur Godfrey & His Friends won the No. 2 spot, with 55.8%. Berle (52.6%) is in third place, pressed closely by The Red Skelton Show...
...Majesty. For its pains, Aramco (owned by California Standard, Texaco, New Jersey Standard, Socony-Vacuum) got 440,000 square miles of Ibn Saud's domain, the world's largest oil concession, the most productive (866,000 barrels daily) and one of the most profitable...