Raymond Plank, who helped found Apache in 1954, Nov. 8 in his home in Ucross, Wyoming, at the age of 96. A coal miner’s son and World War II combat pilot, Plank teamed up with two partners in Minneapolis after the war to sell insurance, mutual funds and interests in oil and gas wells to a burgeoning small business sector. In 1954, they expanded the oil and gas part of the business to form Apache Corp., originally......
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