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Died. Charles Holden, 84, busy British architect whose solid, conservative designs left his imprint throughout London (the handsome London Transport office building, the towering London University buildings, Piccadilly Circus subway station) and in scores of impressive World War I memorials scattered about Britain and France; in London...
...Force lieutenant who won the D.F.C. in Korea, and later became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, Pope worked himself back into top shape teaching his Indonesian guards judo, and read enough law books in prison to help conduct his own defense (he thought he was fighting international Communism, he said). But U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones publicly regretted that an American "paid soldier of fortune" had become involved in the fighting (a witness quoted Pope as saying the rebels paid him $10.000 a month for his work...
...employees of a single company, Royal Dutch/Shell, the world's second biggest oil company - after Standard Oil (New Jersey) - and by far the most international in scope, organization and spirit. Controlled in partnership by two holding companies, one Dutch (Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.) and one British (Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd.), Royal Dutch/Shell is a two-headed creature that owns or partially owns 500 worldwide subsidiaries. Known simply as "Shell" to the public and to the oil industry as "the Group," it produces 14% of the free world...
...scramble for new oil has attracted a swarm of scrappy independent wildcatters - to the great concern of the industry's giants. The independents are drilling all over the world, cutting prices, moving into long-established markets - thanks to a tanker surplus that provides them with dirt-cheap transport. All told, some 250 companies, many of them either new or making their first ventures abroad, are searching for oil in more than 80 countries...
...attempt by Standard to take over the new company. By his skill and daring in finding oil markets, Deterding built Royal Dutch into an integrated operation, invaded country after country in a battle with Jersey Standard. To gain strength, he merged in 1907 with Britain's Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd., headed by a Londoner named Marcus Samuel, who had switched from importing to the promising field of oil. The two companies kept their separate identities, but adopted for their common symbol the polished sea shell that Samuel had used as his trademark when he was importing shells...