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Gulf Oil, the Glossary

Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985.^[1]

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Abdulhadi H. Taher

Abdulhadi H. Taher (1930 – 2013) was a Saudi Arabian oil executive and author.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo (Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County.

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Andrew Mellon

Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937), known also as A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician.

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Anglo-Persian Oil Company

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC; شرکت نفت ایران و انگلیس) was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Persia (Iran).

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Apollo 11

Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.

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The Apollo Lunar Module (LM), originally designated the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), was the lunar lander spacecraft that was flown between lunar orbit and the Moon's surface during the United States' Apollo program.

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Arbitrage

In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more marketsstriking a combination of matching deals to capitalize on the difference, the profit being the difference between the market prices at which the unit is traded.

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Ashland Global

Ashland Inc. is an American chemical company headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Gulf Oil and Ashland Global are chemical companies of the United States.

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Auto racing

Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.

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Autosport

Autosport is a global motorsport publishing brand headquartered based in Richmond, London, England.

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Bantry Bay

Bantry Bay is a bay located in County Cork, Ireland.

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Barco oil concession

The Barco oil concession was one of the main concessions in Colombia during the early development of its petroleum industry, the other being the De Mares concession.

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Bayford & Co

The Bayford Group is a British company founded in 1919 in Leeds, England.

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Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Big Oil

Big Oil is a name sometimes used to describe the world's six or seven largest publicly traded and investor-owned oil and gas companies, also known as supermajors.

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Bill Noël

William Douglas Noël (May 11, 1914 – January 9, 1987), was an American independent oilman, industrialist, banker, rancher, philanthropist, and civic leader in Odessa, Texas.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Gulf Oil and BP are automotive fuel retailers and gas stations in the United States.

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Bringin' Home the Oil

Bringin' Home the Oil is an Irish-themed sea shanty written in 1969 by Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers as the theme for a two-minute-long television commercial for Gulf Oil as part of their sponsorship of NBC News coverage of the US space program and the national political conventions in celebration of Gulf Oil's then-new operations in Bantry Bay.

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Bruce McLaren

Bruce Leslie McLaren (30 August 1937 – 2 June 1970) was a New Zealand racing car designer, driver, engineer, and inventor.

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Burgan field

The Burgan field is an oil field situated in the desert of southeastern Kuwait.

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Business incubator

A business incubator is an organization that helps startup companies and individual entrepreneurs to develop their businesses by providing a fullscale range of services, starting with management training and office space, and ending with venture capital financing.

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Cabinda Province

Cabinda (formerly called Portuguese Congo, Kabinda) is an exclave and province of Angola, a status that has been disputed by several political organizations in the territory.

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Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake (Lac Caddo) is a lake and bayou (wetland) on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Chet Huntley

Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley (December 10, 1911 – March 20, 1974) was an American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas. Gulf Oil and Chevron Corporation are automotive fuel retailers, chemical companies of the United States, gas stations in the United States and oil companies of the United States.

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Citgo

Citgo Petroleum Corporation, or Citgo (stylized as CITGO), is a United States–based refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. Gulf Oil and Citgo are automotive fuel retailers, gas stations in the United States and oil companies of the United States.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Conoco

Conoco, formerly known as Continental Oil, is an American petroleum brand that is operating under the ownership of the Phillips 66 Company since 2012 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Gulf Oil and Conoco are automotive fuel retailers, chemical companies of the United States, Defunct oil companies of the United States and gas stations in the United States.

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Consumer confusion

Consumer confusion is a state of mind that leads to consumers making imperfect purchasing decisions or lacking confidence in the correctness of their purchasing decisions.

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Corporate raid

In business, a corporate raid is the process of buying a large stake in a corporation and then using shareholder voting rights to require the company to undertake novel measures designed to increase the share value, generally in opposition to the desires and practices of the corporation's current management.

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Cumberland Farms

Cumberland Farms, colloquially known as Cumby's, is a regional chain of convenience stores based in Westborough, Massachusetts, operating primarily in New England, New York and Florida. Gulf Oil and Cumberland Farms are gas stations in the United States.

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Cumulative voting

Cumulative voting (sometimes called the single divisible vote) is a variant on the single non-transferable vote (SNTV), which differs in that it allows a voter to split their support across multiple candidates.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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David Brinkley

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.

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Delaware General Corporation Law

The Delaware General Corporation Law (Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code) is the statute of the Delaware Code that governs corporate law in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Diesel fuel

Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil, heavy oil (historically) or simply diesel, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and then injection of fuel.

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Disney anthology television series

The Walt Disney Company has produced an anthology television series since 1954 under several titles and formats.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Everglades

The Everglades is a natural region of flooded grasslands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm.

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Petroleum is a fossil fuel that can be drawn from beneath the Earth's surface.

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ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. Gulf Oil and ExxonMobil are automotive fuel retailers, chemical companies of the United States and oil companies of the United States.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Fluid catalytic cracking

Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the conversion process used in petroleum refineries to convert the high-boiling point, high-molecular weight hydrocarbon fractions of petroleum (crude oils) into gasoline, alkene gases, and other petroleum products.

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Ford GT40

The Ford GT40 is a 1960s high-performance endurance racing car designed and built for and by the Ford Motor Company "Ford GT" (for Grand Touring) project, an effort to compete in European long-distance sports car races, against Scuderia Ferrari, which had won the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race from 1960 to 1965.

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Formula Atlantic

Formula Atlantic is a specification of open-wheel racing car developed in the 1970s.

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Formula One

Formula One, commonly known as Formula 1 or F1, is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

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Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.

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Framingham, Massachusetts

Framingham is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States.

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Franchising

Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organization as a strategy for business expansion.

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Gasoline

Gasoline or petrol is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Get-rich-quick scheme

A get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to obtain high rates of return for a small investment.

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Glenn Pool Oil Reserve

The discovery of the Glenn Pool Oil Reserve in 1905 brought the first major oil pipelines into Oklahoma, and instigated the first large scale oil boom in the state.

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Grand Prix motorcycle racing

Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).

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Grease (lubricant)

Grease is a solid or semisolid lubricant formed as a dispersion of thickening agents in a liquid lubricant.

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Greater Pittsburgh

Greater Pittsburgh is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Pittsburgh in Western Pennsylvania, United States.

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Greenmail

Greenmail or greenmailing is a financial maneuver where investors buy enough shares in a target company to threaten a hostile takeover, prompting the target company to buy back the shares at a premium to prevent the takeover.

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Gresini Racing

Gresini Racing is a motorcycle racing team competing in the MotoGP World Championship under the name Gresini Racing MotoGP as a Ducati satellite team, in the Moto2 World Championship as QJmotor Gresini Moto2, and the MotoE World Cup as Felo Gresini MotoE.

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Grumman

The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft.

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Grumman F3F

The Grumman F3F is a biplane fighter aircraft produced by the Grumman aircraft for the United States Navy during the mid-1930s.

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Gulf Canada

Gulf Canada was a Canadian integrated petroleum company that existed between 1944 and 2001.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Gulf Oil

Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985. Gulf Oil and Gulf Oil are American companies disestablished in 1985, American companies established in 1901, automotive fuel retailers, chemical companies of the United States, Chevron Corporation, companies based in Pittsburgh, Defunct automotive companies of the United States, Defunct manufacturing companies based in Pennsylvania, Defunct oil companies of the United States, energy companies established in 1901, gas stations in the United States, oil companies of the United States, retail companies disestablished in 1985 and retail companies established in 1901.

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Gulf Oil LP

Gulf Oil LP is an American oil company formed when Chevron Corporation acquired the naming rights to the Gulf Oil brand in the United States for $13 billion in 1985. Gulf Oil and Gulf Oil LP are oil companies of the United States.

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Gulf Tower

The Gulf Tower is a 44-story, Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Headquarters

Headquarters (commonly referred to as HQ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated.

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Hinduja Group

Hinduja Group is an Indian transnational conglomerate.

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Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a chain of hotels based in Atlanta, Georgia and a brand of IHG Hotels & Resorts.

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Howard Johnson's

Howard Johnson by Wyndham, or more commonly known as Howard Johnson's, is an American hotel brand with over 200 hotels in 15 countries.

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Indiana

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Indianapolis 500

The Indianapolis 500, formally known as the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, and commonly shortened to Indy 500, is an annual automobile race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, United States, an enclave suburb of Indianapolis.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irwin, Pennsylvania

Irwin is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jobber (fuel)

A jobber, or petroleum marketer, is a person or company that purchases quantities of refined fuel from refining companies (e.g., BP, Shell, Exxon), either for sale to retailers (e.g., gasoline stations), or to sell directly to the users of those products (e.g., home heating oil to homeowners, lubricating oils to industrial operations or repair shops, jet fuel to FBOs, etc.).

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John Wyer

John Wyer (11 December 1909 – 8 April 1989), was an English automobile racing engineer and team manager.

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Jonas Savimbi

Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (3 August 1934 – 22 February 2002) was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).

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Jordan

Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.

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Kuwait

Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.

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Kuwait Oil Company

Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), an oil company headquartered in Al Ahmadi, Kuwait, is a subsidiary of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, a government-owned holding company.

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Kuwait Petroleum Corporation

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (مؤسسة البترول الكويتية; KPC) is Kuwait's major national oil company, headquartered in Al Kuwait. Gulf Oil and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation are automotive fuel retailers.

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Lake Maracaibo

Lake Maracaibo (Lago de Maracaibo) is a brackish lake located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida.

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Le Mans (film)

Le Mans is a 1971 film depicting a fictional 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race starring Steve McQueen and directed by Lee H. Katzin.

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List of international auto racing colours

From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.

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Lists of space programs

A space program is an organized effort by a government or a company with a goal related to outer space.

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Lubricant

A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move.

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McLaren

McLaren Racing Limited is a British motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, England.

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McLaren Automotive

McLaren Automotive (formerly known as McLaren Cars) is a British luxury automotive manufacturer based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England.

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McLaren Group

McLaren Group Limited is a British holding company based in Woking, England, which is involved in Formula One and other motorsport and the manufacture of sports cars.

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Mellon family

The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential American family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Mellon Financial

Mellon Financial Corporation was an American investment firm which was once one of the world's largest money management firms. Gulf Oil and Mellon Financial are companies based in Pittsburgh.

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Mid-Sea Road

The is a road in Uruma, Okinawa, Japan.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Mobil

Mobil is a petroleum brand owned and operated by American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil. Gulf Oil and Mobil are automotive fuel retailers, chemical companies of the United States, gas stations in the United States and oil companies of the United States.

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Motorsport.com

Motorsport.com is a website specializing in motor racing news.

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National Air and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New economy

The New Economy refers to the ongoing development of the American economic system.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile. Gulf Oil and Occidental Petroleum are chemical companies of the United States and oil companies of the United States.

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Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Olympia and York

Olympia & York (also spelled as Olympia and York, abbreviated as O&Y) was a major international property development firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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PDVSA

Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (acronym PDVSA) (English: Petroleum of Venezuela) is the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company.

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Pemex

Pemex (a portmanteau of Petróleos Mexicanos, which translates to Mexican Petroleum in English) is the Mexican state-owned petroleum company managed and operated by the Mexican government. Gulf Oil and Pemex are automotive fuel retailers.

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Pennsylvania Turnpike

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, sometimes shortened to Penna Turnpike or PA Turnpike, is a controlled-access toll road that is operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) is an agency created in 1937 to construct, finance, operate, and maintain the Pennsylvania Turnpike (both the mainline and the Northeast Extension).

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Petro-Canada

Petro-Canada (colloquially known as Petro-Can) is a retail and wholesale marketing brand subsidiary of Suncor Energy. Gulf Oil and Petro-Canada are automotive fuel retailers.

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Petrochemical

Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Petroleum industry

The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Phillips Petroleum Company

Phillips Petroleum Company was an American oil company incorporated in 1917 that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural gas gathering and the chemicals sectors. Gulf Oil and Phillips Petroleum Company are automotive fuel retailers and Defunct oil companies of the United States.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Porsche 917

The Porsche 917 is a sports prototype race car developed by German manufacturer Porsche to exploit the regulations regarding the construction of 5-litre sports cars.

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Port Arthur, Texas

Port Arthur is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, east of Houston.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Presidency of Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989.

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Public company

A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Rest area

A rest area is a public facility located next to a large thoroughfare such as a motorway, expressway, or highway, at which drivers and passengers can rest, eat, or refuel without exiting onto secondary roads.

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Royalty trust

A royalty trust is a type of corporation, mostly in the United States or Canada, usually involved in oil and gas production or mining.

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San Tomé, Venezuela

San Tomé is an oil company town, or camp, located about 8 miles northeast of the city of El Tigre, in the state of Anzoátegui in Venezuela.

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Scale model

A scale model is a physical model that is geometrically similar to an object (known as the prototype).

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Shell plc

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Gulf Oil and Shell plc are automotive fuel retailers.

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Shell USA

Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc.) is the United States-based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a UK-based transnational corporation "oil major" which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Gulf Oil and Shell USA are automotive fuel retailers, gas stations in the United States and oil companies of the United States.

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Six-Day War

The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 June 1967.

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spindletop

Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas, in the United States.

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Steve McQueen

Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor and racing driver.

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Suez Canal

The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).

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Sunoco

Sunoco LP is an American master limited partnership organized under Delaware state laws and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Gulf Oil and Sunoco are automotive fuel retailers, gas stations in the United States and oil companies of the United States.

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T. Boone Pickens

Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (May 22, 1928 – September 11, 2019) was an American business magnate and financier.

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TAG Heuer

TAG Heuer S.A., founded Heuer AG is a Swiss luxury watchmaker.

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TAG Heuer Monaco

The TAG Heuer Monaco, initially introduced by Heuer in 1969, is a line of automatic chronograph wristwatches created to commemorate the Monaco Grand Prix.

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Tetraethyllead

Tetraethyllead (commonly styled tetraethyl lead), abbreviated TEL, is an organolead compound with the formula Pb(C2H5)4.

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Texaco

Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Gulf Oil and Texaco are automotive fuel retailers, chemical companies of the United States, Defunct oil companies of the United States, gas stations in the United States and oil companies of the United States.

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The Clancy Brothers

The Clancy Brothers were an influential Irish folk music group that developed initially as a part of the American folk music revival.

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Tommy Makem

Thomas Makem (4 November 1932 – 1 August 2007) was an Irish folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller.

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TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and is one of the seven supermajor oil companies. Gulf Oil and TotalEnergies are automotive fuel retailers.

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Trans World Airlines

Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1930 until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and is the 48th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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U.S. Steel Tower

The U.S. Steel Tower, also known as the Steel Building, UPMC Building, or USX Tower (1988–2001), is a 64-story skyscraper at 600 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Ultramar

Ultramar is an Eastern Canadian gas and home fuel retailer, with its head office located in Montreal, Quebec. Gulf Oil and Ultramar are automotive fuel retailers.

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UNITA

The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola, abbr. UNITA) is the second-largest political party in Angola.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh (also known as Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center

The University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center (U-PARC) is a one-million-square foot (93,000 m2), high-security research park campus of the University of Pittsburgh.

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Unocal Corporation

Union Oil Company of California, and its holding company Unocal Corporation, together known as Unocal was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century. Gulf Oil and Unocal Corporation are Chevron Corporation and Defunct oil companies of the United States.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wellesley, Massachusetts

Wellesley is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Western Pennsylvania

Western Pennsylvania is a region in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania encompassing the western third of the state.

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Whiddy Island disaster

The Whiddy Island disaster, also known as the Betelgeuse incident or Betelgeuse disaster, occurred on 8 January 1979, around 1:00 am, when the oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded in Bantry Bay, at the offshore jetty for the oil terminal at Whiddy Island, Ireland.

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White knight (business)

In business, a white knight is a friendly investor that acquires a corporation at a fair consideration with support from the corporation's board of directors and management.

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Wildcatter

A wildcatter is an individual who drills wildcat wells, which are exploration oil wells drilled in areas not known to be oil fields.

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Willard F. Jones

Willard F. Jones I (February 27, 1890 – August 18, 1967) was an American naval architect, business executive, and philanthropist.

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William Larimer Mellon Sr.

William Larimer Mellon Sr. (June 1, 1868 – October 9, 1949), sometimes referred to as W. L., was an American businessman who was active in Republican Party politics.

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Williams Grand Prix Engineering

Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, currently racing in Formula One as Williams Racing, is a British Formula One team and constructor.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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1964 Republican National Convention

The 1964 Republican National Convention took place in the Cow Palace, Daly City, California, from July 13 to July 16, 1964.

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1975 Philadelphia Gulf refinery fire

A refinery owned by Gulf Oil Corporation in Philadelphia, located at Girard Point on the Schuylkill River in South Philadelphia, caught fire on Sunday, August 17, 1975.

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7-Eleven

7-Eleven, Inc. is an American convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas. Gulf Oil and 7-Eleven are gas stations in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Oil

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