Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been eyeing other firms with large fuel supplies. Last January, Chairman James E. Lee told a group of security analysts: "I recognize that in the near term our best shot at reversing our reserves decline may be to buy reserves." Cities Service will provide plenty. The Tulsa-based firm has land believed to hold at least 307 million bbl. of crude and more than 3 trillion...
...Waldorf-Astoria hotel. Pickens, 54, had come to New York loaded not with watermelons but with money, $ 1 billion in bank credits to be exact. He intended to use the money to buy up a company nearly 20 times Mesa's size. His target: Cities Service Co. of Tulsa, the nation's 20th largest oil firm, which had 1981 sales of $8.5 billion...
...that price, Pickens decided that it was time to go for outright majority control, and two weeks ago he made his move. In a telephone call from his Texas headquarters to Waidelich in Tulsa, Pickens proposed, as a "friendly offer," that Mesa pay $50 a share, or $1.8 billion, for 46% of Cities Service stock, plus $1.9 billion more in promissory notes and Mesa stock for the remaining 49% of Cities Service shares. The startled Waidelich, faced with the prospect of seeing his company disappear into a firm a fraction of its size, fought back the next day with...
Malcolm H. Taylor Tulsa...
...TULSA. Okla.--Senior women at Oral Roberts University are no longer being held to the usual curfews at midnight during the week and 1 a.m. on weekends. As a special treat, the women will be allowed to stay out 15 minutes later than usual this semester...