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Died. Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, 64, Vickers Ltd. aircraft representative in Australia, who with his brother, Sir Ross Smith, made the first (1919) England-to-Australia flight; in Sydney, Australia...
...good occasion for a blood-donor campaign, too-and the theme became "bonds and blood." A parody of a bristling, Soviet-style May Day was ruled out in favor of a purely American holiday. "We wanted to show what Moscow, U.S.A. has," explained Chamber of Commerce President Del MacPherson. "It might be corny," added the regional T-man, Edward Reese, "but it's still fundamental...
Last week the radiotelephone that links up MacPherson's headquarters with his drillers in the field crackled out the news that oil was struck at last. MacPherson sped to the drilling site, found that the drills, at 3,500 ft., had bit into an oil pool that looked every bit as rich as the world's richest, the fabulous Burgan sands in Kuwait proper, 20 miles to the north of the Neutral Zone...
...oilmen had wondered whether any oil lies between the Kuwait sands and Arabian American Oil Co.'s fields to the south (see map). MacPherson's strike gave the answer. Even those who had no financial interest were elated. Wired Aramco's Middle East boss of Arab affairs, Bill Eddy, to MacPherson: HALLELUJAH...
Indivisible Halves. Davies, a onetime California Standard vice president, knew that MacPherson, another Socal veteran, was the right man to do his drilling. MacPherson was already running Aramco's operations, had the biggest oil job in the Middle East. But MacPherson, feeling hemmed in by remote-control corporate rule, took Old Friend Davies' offer. English-born MacPherson first got to know the Middle East when he served in General Allenby's Palestine army in World War I. Meanwhile Pacific Western Oil's* J. Paul Getty bought up the other half of the Neutral Zone...