Oil boom brings Americans and their families to Aberdeen
In Aberdeen, Scotland, 3000 to 4000 Americans, many from Texas and Louisiana, live near the North Sea oil fields. The American Food Store thrives as locals stock up on US fare, while oil investment boosts housing prices, unemployment falls, and city life flourishes amid a multicultural, oil-driven boom.
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Ronald Thomson
Aberdeen
Scotland
Hamilton Ross
Texas
Louisiana
U.S
North Sea
Ross
John Utton
Northeast
Saudi Arabia
Nigeria
Venezuela
Iran
Australia
Hutton
Middle East
Norway
Denmark
West Germany
Netherlands
Star and Garter
North Sea Petroleum Country Club
Union Street
Tim Kenny
Shell Company
Houston
Miami
Abu Dhabi
Ford follows USO tradition
President Ford accepts the post of honorary chairman of the United Service Organizations continuing a tradition since Franklin D. Roosevelt. The USO, founded in 1941, is a civilian nonprofit that provides social services to the nation’s 2.1 million service members and their dependents.
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New York
Ford
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United Service Organizations
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Spencer Raes
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Middletown
Edwards
Labor & Fabric
Franklin
Springboro
P.R.O.M.I.S.E.S
Japan
C.E. Taylor
C. R. Burton
Lea Brics
A&p
Jo Ann
Esco
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