Chief exec until 1987; still chairman emeritus. Acquired software firm Wind River Systems in June for $884 million; will assist expansion into handheld and GPS markets. Moore no longer involved in company’s management. Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation doles out $183 million annually to support conservation and environmental science, plus nursing school and science museums in San Francisco Bay area. Today Cox Enterprises includes Cox Communications cable company, 17 daily newspapers, 15 TV stations, 86 radio stations, Manheim auctions , AutoTrader.com.
Signed ad agreement with Yahoo summer 2008; withdrew from agreement months later. While rummaging through her late grandfather’s desk, Banks found stacks of uncashed checks made out to Belene, stock knucklehead’s brew house certificates, and notes, all with the name Getty on them—a name she’d never heard of. After a good deal of research, including visits to staff members at the Getty Center, she learned who J.
Paul Getty and heiress to one of the wealthiest fortunes in California history. Ivy Getty is the daughter of John Gilbert Getty and the great-granddaughter of oil tycoon J. The wedding was officiated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Mayor London Breed was also reportedly in attendance. It seems we finally know what California Gov. Gavin Newsom was up to for at least part of his prolonged public absence for the last week and a half. Cambridge Journals Online is the e-publishing service for over 270 journals published by Cambridge University Press and is entirely developed and hosted in-house.
Of Texas; Navy in WWII; later worked for father’s Moncrief Oil. Acquired one-third of Wyoming’s Madden Deep natural gas field; still company’s biggest asset. Has 20,000-acre parcel on Barnett Shale, leaving undeveloped for now. Falling natural gas prices at 7-year lows, shaving $900 million from fortune. This summer bought stake in McMoRan Exploration’s deepwater drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico. Auto dealer’s son started used computer sales operation after a $3, 3-line ad in the Chicago Tribune for his old IBM was met with high demand.
By the spring of 1926, with his fortunes flush, he took a break. Getty recalled being “enchanted” by the “vivacious, attractive, and brilliant” Allene when they took romantic horseback rides together. Within weeks, they drove to Cuernavaca and, impetuously, were wed. If some sources are correct about the date of his divorce decree from Jeannette, the marriage was bigamist. George eventually prevailed upon the Cunard Line, and on September 12 the Gettys set sail back to America on the Lusitania.
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