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- ↑ Louis Galambos (ed.) et al. The Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Columbia University; Volume X. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press. 1984. p. 760
- ↑ Nathan Aaseng. Business Builders in Oil. Oliver Press, Inc. 2000. p. 131.
