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Examples
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His first job was as an office boy with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
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Soon afterward, the British government bought the D'Arcy concession, which it named the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Stephen Kinzer: BP in the Gulf -- The Persian Gulf Stephen Kinzer 2010
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The Anglo-Persian Oil Company subsequently struck oil in commercial quantities in 1908 at Southwest Iran.
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Soon afterward, the British government bought the D'Arcy concession, which it named the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
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Unfortunately, the DNA of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which exploited Iran's oil resources for 70 years enslaving tens of thousands of Iranians, then compelling the US to use the CIA to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister in order to reinstate a corrupt Shah runs deep in BP.
Robert L. Cavnar: Hayward Gets Life Back; American Workers Still Dead 2010
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Unfortunately, the DNA of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which exploited Iran's oil resources for 70 years enslaving tens of thousands of Iranians, then compelling the US to use the CIA to overthrow a democratically elected prime minister in order to reinstate a corrupt Shah runs deep in BP.
Robert L. Cavnar: Hayward Gets Life Back; American Workers Still Dead 2010
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BP originated in 1908 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company -- a British corporation whose name was changed to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company two decades later.
Lawrence Wittner: BP's Other Gifts to America -- And to the World 2010
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The Anglo-Persian Oil Company subsequently struck oil in commercial quantities in 1908 at Southwest Iran.
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Anglo-Persian Oil officials got administrative control, American companies gained no British Middle East concessions, and a fierce battle raged over the region's oil throughout the 1920s.
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Anglo-Persian Oil officials got administrative control, American companies gained no British Middle East concessions, and a fierce battle raged over the region's oil throughout the 1920s.
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