Fred A. Davies papers. 1916-1971.

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Fred A. Davies papers. 1916-1971.

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Biographical information, correspondence (1930-1961), publications (1930-1958), photographs, and miscellaneous materials of Davies, a geologist, mining engineer, and official of Aramco and other oil companies in the Middle East. Davies graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1916 with a degree in mining engineering. He was responsible for early explorations of the oil fields in Bahrain in the 1930s. In 1952 Davies was named CEO and Chairman of the Board for Aramco until he retired in 1959.

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On March 27, 1964, at approximately 5:36 p.m. Alaska Standard Time, the "Good Friday" Earthquake (also known as the Great Alaska Earthquake) shook all of Southcentral Alaska. The quake's epicenter was 80 miles east of Anchorage in Prince William Sound. The quake's magnitude was originally recorded between 8.4 and 8.6 on the Richter scale, but later upgraded to 9.2. The earthquake was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America. It was the second largest earthquake ever recorded, ...

Davies, Fred. A.

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Fred A. Davies was born on April 17, 1894 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated with a degree in mining engineering from the University of Minnesota Department of Mines in 1916. After serving in the Army during World War I, he worked as an oil geologist for the Greenwood Company, and then for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company as a metallurgist. In 1922 he joined the Standard Oil Company of California (Socal) as a geologist, exploring for oil...