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Show Tells the Story of Oil Company Head The story of Continental Oil company and its rise to prominence promi-nence in the oil industry, is told in the current issue of Fortune magazine. A striking feature of the article is a thumb-nail sketch of Conoco's president, Dan Moran: "Bern at Cynet, Ohio, he had picked up cash as an office boy and as a telegraph operator, earned earn-ed his way through tihe University of Dayton, and then had gone south. To Tulsa, where he saw the oil spout from the Glenn pool strike, then to Port Arthur, where he signed up as an engineer for the Texas company. From there he was sent down to Panama and to South America, and from South America he had trekked north e nnencemaga-nc Eagai again into Mexico and to the states. He had spent 17 days- in a hurricane on an oil Ibarge. He had helped repair the ravages of another hurricane, which, ripping through Port Ariihur, had floated away the oil tanks of a refinery there like so many toy ships. He had built refineries, drilled for oil, and had put up ocean terminals at Charleston, Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, Key West, and in Cuba. And in the process he had learned something of men and something of the sweet-smelling stuff called crude". |