Leon Hess
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Leon Hess
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Leon Hess was an American businessman, the founder of the Hess Corporation and the owner of the New York Jets. Hess built an oil terminal in New Jersey after the Great Depression, building his first refinery in the late 1950s. He sold his company, Hess Oil and Chemical, in 1963 and joined a consortium to buy the New York Jets. Hess was responsible for moving the Jets to Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1984. In 1969, Hess acquired Amerada Petroleum Corporation, one of the larges
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American oil executive
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Hess
date created:
2006-11-26T20:49:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T23:35:40Z
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