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OH 0661

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeFOSQUE, John D. (b. 1911)
ProfessionsExecutive
EmployersCaltex Petroleum Corporation

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 0661
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionExecutive. Educational background; employment in Haiti with Texaco; transfer to Caltex; marketing activities of Caltex (India), 1936-41; service in the China-Burma India Theater during World War II; postwar Caltex (India) marketing strategies; partition of India; refinery at Vishakhapatnam; relationship between home office (New York) and field operations; transfer to New York office as general manager of the Central East Division, 1954; relationship between Caltex and shareholders; president, Caltex West; refinery expansion in 1950s; reorganization, 1957; nationalization and expropriation; OPEC.
Interviewer(s)Ronald E. Marcello
Physical Description75 pp.
Terms of UseOpen