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This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area. As of November 2012, Tulsa was home to one Fortune 1000 and two Fortune 500 companies: Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, energy companies: ONEOK (#219), and The Williams Companies, Inc. (#342). [18]
Tripadvisor has been the subject of controversy for allowing unsubstantiated anonymous reviews to be posted about any hotel, bed and breakfast, inn, or restaurant. [64]In May 2021, Tripadvisor was criticized for allowing an offensive review to be posted about the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in which a visitor described bringing a baby to the gas chambers.
Tulsa (/ ˈ t ʌ l s ə / ⓘ TUL-sə) is the second-most-populous city in the state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. [5]
John Toole "J. T." Griffin – the owner and president of the Griffin Grocery Company, a Muskogee-based wholesaler and manufacturer of condiments and baking products that he inherited from his father, John Taylor Griffin, after the elder company co-founder died in 1944 – entered the communications industry in October 1938, when he purchased local radio station KOMA (1520 AM, now KOKC) from ...
William G. Skelly, founder of Skelly Oil, founded KVOO-TV. The VHF channel 2 allocation was contested between two groups, both led by prominent Oklahoma oilmen, that competed for approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be the holder of the construction permit to build and license to operate a new television station on the third commercial VHF allocation to be assigned to Tulsa.
The deputy spotted the motorcycle, which sped off and passed two vehicles on a double yellow line. The cyclist escaped, but deputy Bill Reynolds spotted it near Snows Mill Road, where a stop was made.
BOK Tower (named for the Bank of Oklahoma; formerly known as One Williams Center) is a skyscraper in Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma.At 667 feet (203 m) [2] in height, the 52-story tower was the tallest building in Oklahoma until surpassed by Devon Tower in 2011. [3]
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma built in 1928 OneOK headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 20 March 2007. Oklahoma Natural Gas Company was founded on October 12, 1906 [3] by businessmen Dennis T. Flynn and Charles B. Ames. [4] During the spring and fall of 1907, the company built a gas pipeline from Osage County to Sapulpa and Oklahoma City. [4]