Significant role in the Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. He quitee, in 1941, famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940s and playing out during world war ii. We will look at how oil combined with religion helps create competing visions of American Authority on the global stage. If you recall prior to spring break, we had been spending time in the interwar period, looking at oil and some of these scand
Professor Darren Dochuk teaches a class about mid20th century Oil Interests. He describes the expansion of he describes the east Texas Oil Boom and the expansion of u. S. Oil businesses abroad to places like saudi arabia and alberta, canada. He argues that religion played a significant role in the worldview and Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. In 1941, it was famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940
The very latest. A lot of action there as anticipated. And a Health Care Proposal from republican senator ted cruz is gaining apparently some traction on capitol hill well have details on his amendment, proposed amendment and reaction from the ceo of mt. Sinai hospital lets get to our jon fortt, shall we, beginning with some big job cuts over at microsoft jon is in san francisco. Jon . Reporter yeah, kelly, microsoft set to cut thousands of jobs as it focuses its efforts on the cloud, reorganizes its sales operation around that. Its going to be less than 10 of its overall sales force of just under 50,000 people, but cant get a lot more specific than that. Also, some corporate functions connected to sales now, most of these jobs are going to be overseas more than 75 of them. This reorganization, think of it in terms of a different way to approach selling cloud to the enterprise, to finance, to health care. Lots of different specific Industries Microsoft trying to have subject Matter Exp
Technology stocks slid again and so did energy. Then there are those who cite todays lackluster economic reports then of course, there are rising geo political tensions overseas, but whatever the reason the Dow Jones Industrial average drop 1258 points. S p fell 22. And whatever the reason or reasons for the market slide today, lot of investors did have at least one ear toward europe. Germany in particular, where World Leaders of the group of 20 are meeting. They were greeted by protesters not uncommon at global meetings like this and certainly not unexpected in a town like hamburg. It has long been a town of for germany, President Trump was in poland, where he explicitly endorsed natos mutual defense clause after failing to do so during his previous umpen trip. He also made a veiled jab at russia. Eamon reports tonight from ham berg. Trump took to the podium in warsaw, poeland to cheland and forge Stronger Economic ties. We welcome stronger ties of trade and commerce as you grow your
Jim paul casey, still working on a candy bar and waiting for an opponent to show up. I think its better than a candy bar. I think its a health bar. Jim youre probably right. Little flashback here. This is 2009. In the playoff there between paul and j. T. Holmes. First playoff hole james puts it in the water. Casey goes on to win it. Plus holmes came back to win it this year. Hes been as high as number three in the world. Still got a ways to go to get down to that 18th tee. Nick yeah. Jim paul casey is heading in a different direction. Hes heading away from the tee. Peter i got to say that there is pretty misleading, that stat. Hes won three times since then, so jim thats right. Aaron baddeley was there to wish bubba good luck. The baddeley family throwing some support here. You. Real madrid have about 450 million fans. Were trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. The microsoft cloud gis heus the scalability to communicate exactly the content that people want to see