WSP01187

• File Number: 8027
• Description: Section D General Correspondence-Federal Agencies
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 7/1/1952
• Author: Unknown
• Title: The Golden Jubilee of Reclamation
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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1his could happen only in America

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A 50111 Birthda) ,1IrJSllge
from Tlte Texas Compa,,)

I~I FrY years a~o a tiny company
was started in Beaumont, Texas,
where oil had just been disconrcd.

This company started with one tract
of land which might contain oil. one
slOraj1;c tank, one short stretch of
pipe line, one pile of bricks for
huilding a refinery - a little mOll!.')'
and a lot of hope.

On its golden anniversary, this
company has 9,700,000 aeft'S (,f pro-
ducing Of potelltial oil land in the
United States, owns or opcutt's
more than 7,000 miles of pipe Iim>s,
drills dose to a thomand new wdls

each year, has refineries, oil storage
tanks, distributinjl; planls, rcscan:h
laboratorit.s and all the other com-
plex facilities needed to serve cw.-
tOlllers in e\Try state (If the Union
,lIld throughout the world.

This company also has today over
100.000 oWllers - ill\"estors whose
faith and dollars helped it to ri.~e to
its opportunities.

Such things could happen only in
America-bccause only America
~ins men the freedom to make them
happell.

This is a land where men ha'"c heen
free tn run risks and reap the
rewards 111l~ir COllra~e ami judgment
dCSCT'"C,

It has heen a land where Illcn have
been fn'e to invent or ill\'est - to
pioneer or produce-to the limit of
their ahility and their ,"ision of what
could be dOlle.

h has been a land of indqlendcnce
of th(Ju~ht and actioll-in whidl the
best mall was allowed to win,

The Texas Company has Stone it
alone in the oil business-askinll: no
fa'"ors - standing on its own fcet-
competin~ for its share of the busi-
ness by developing and marketing
good fuels and lubricants-seeking
no security except that which it
could earn.

Other companies ha'"c gone it alone
in other industries. And we - and
they-and America have grown
tOj1;cther, bl'}'(JIld anylbing the world
has c\"er seen.

It is not by accident that America
builds 83'" of the world's automo-
biles_generates H ~ of the world's
horsepower-and produces 51" of
the world's oil.

rrhat is why America, OHr the pasl
fifty years, has been known as "'the
land of opportunity."

That is also whr, in a world .....hich
liHS today in the shadow of conflicl
and in all atmosphere of economic
uncertainty. America shines as an
island of hope for all to see.

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THE TEXAS COMPANY

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