Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oilmen this move is something worth watching, for Mike Benedum is the luckiest wildcatter ever. With a $500 grubstake and more nerve than a circus trapezist, he got into the oil business in the '90s. In no time at all he made a killing in West Virginia oil, discovered the then huge Crawford Field in Illinois, lost most of his cash in Oklahoma mud. Then he whipped off again, struck the fabulous Caddo pool in Louisiana, moved on to drill in Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, Europe. Most spectacular was his discovery of the great Texas Yates pool, only 16 years...
Died. Marcelo de Alvear, 73, onetime (1922-28) President of Argentina; in Buenos Aires. A revolutionary in the '90s, he became leader of the Radical Party, was Ambassador to France...
Died. Charles A. Taylor, 78, blood-&-thunder dramatist of the '90s; in Glendale, Calif. Five of his melos were running at once on Broadway in 1892. Some of his plays: From Rags to Riches, Yosemite, The King of the Opium Ring, The Queen of White Slaves. Star of Rags was wide-eyed Laurette Taylor, then his wife...
Died. Edward Waterman Townsend, 87, author of the "Chimmie Fadden" stories about the Bowery of the '90s; in Manhattan. Written as newspaper features, the stories sold 200,000 copies in book form, and Townsend got elected to two terms in Congress from New Jersey...
Died. James Buchanan Elmore, 85, "The Bard of Alamo," one of the popular poets of the '90s; on his farm near Alamo, Ind. He enjoyed a latter-day revival when newspaper columnists reprinted him for the sake of such lines as: "He absconded to Cincinnati, and dentistry took, And left a true love he wilfully forsook...