Deterding

With or without Deterding, Gulbenkian continued to be involved in manifold business activities, including an effort to secure an exclusive concession for the marketing of Soviet caviar.

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In 1895, Kessler offered the job to Deterding, who, frustrated with the life of a banker, accepted.

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He was indeed in the line of the great buccaneer-creators of oil: Rockefeller, Samuel and Deterding, Gulbenkian, Getty and Mattei.

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In October 1918, the last month of World War I, Cowdray was approached by Calouste Gulbenkian, on behalf of Henri Deterding.

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In a grim meeting in March 1932, Deterding and other senior executives of Royal Dutch/Shell made the bleakness of the worldwide situation abundantly clear to M.

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He had the same gift for quick mental arithmetic as Rockefeller and Deterding.

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Populating its pages are the tycoons and entrepreneurs of the industry—Rockefeller, of course, but also Henri Deterding, Calouste Gulbenkian, J.

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Marcus Samuel and Henri Deterding would have been proud.

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It finally did away with the complex system of two separate holding companies, Royal Dutch and Shell, run from the Hague and London, that Henri Deterding and Marcus Samuel had forged in 1907 as their grand bargain.

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When asked by a Nobel representative why he would want to come into Russia, Deterding answered bluntly that “his intention was to make money.”

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