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<p><big> History </big></p>
<p><big>1910-1990</big></p>
<p>AECOM traces its origins to Kentucky-based <a href="page.php?w=Ashland_Inc.">Ashland Oil & Refining Company</a>, which in turn grew out of Swiss Drilling Company, founded in Oklahoma in 1910 by J. Fred Miles. He gained control of some 200,000 acres and formed Swiss Oil Company in Lexington. In 1924, Miles launched a refining operation called Ashland Refining Company, headed by <a href="page.php?w=Paul_G._Blazer">Paul Blazer</a>.</p><p>
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