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Word: texaco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week another Mormon went to the Senate. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville (a Catholic) appointed to the seat of the late Key Pittman a 34-year-old L. D. S. bishop, Berkeley Lloyd Bunker, a Texaco filling-station operator of Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T^E CONGRESS: Saints in the Senate | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...chairman could go to White Sulphur, or somewhere, for his health until the unlucky incident blew over? Completely out of sympathy with such fantasies was Texas Corp.'s No. 2 head-reticent, Yale-bred, Anglophile President William Starling Sullivant Rodgers, chief executive of the company and responsible for Texaco's U. S. sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Exit Rieber | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Murray (Texaco) asked what party she was affiliated with. "Same old party," replied Gracie, "George Burns." Murray tried to be more explicit. Politicians always pick a political party, he said, and then get affiliated. "Well," said Gracie, "I may take a drink now and then, but I never get affiliated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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