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FOSQUE, John D. (b. 1911)

Oral Histories

OH 0661

Executive. 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.