Samuel B. Mosher dating history

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Samuel B. Mosher (1892 – 1970) was an American oil entrepreneur, industrialist and horticulturalist who, from a modest start, created Signal Oil and Gas (originally Signal Gasoline), which became the largest California-based independent oil company and then a diversified industrial company. Signal purchased Garrett AiResearch, an aerospace company, in 1964 and attempted to buy Douglas Aircraft in 1966, losing out to McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. In 1967 it purchased Mack Trucks and a bank and changed its name to The Signal Companies in 1968. In 1969, the year before Mosher's death, The Signal Companies had annual revenues of $1.5 billion (over $13 billion in 2025 dollars). The Signal Companies would become one of the founding entities of today's Honeywell aerospace company via AlliedSignal.