Word: amon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Amon G. (for Giles) Carter, devout Texan, found it easy to explain his paper's success. "We get out a newspaper," he said, "that fits our city." Carter's formula, while it did not make the Star-Telegram a famous daily, made it a good one. But his rare combination of showmanship, artful buffoonery and open-handed generosity virtually made Cow-Town Fort Worth a city. Dressed in his ten-gallon hat and cream-colored polo coat, Amon Carter sang Fort Worth's praise all over the world, while passing...
Fort Worth's new $12 million airport: Amon Carter Field. Dallas took Carter's gibes in good humor, thought (as did Amon Carter) that the competition was good for both cities. Said the Dallas Morning News: "Carter punched Dallas like cowboys are wont to do slow steers in a shipping chute...
...race-AMON-Clocker's best...
...oilmen. This is the depletion allowance which permits them to pocket 27½% of their gross income (up to 50% of their net) before paying a cent of taxes. Such old-time Texas millionaires as Jesse Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel...
...million ; Richardson's wealth is even believed by some to be greater than that of Texan H. L. Hunt, estimated at $500 million or more. He owns a Texas City refinery, a string of cattle ranches, a radio and television chain, a drugstore chain, and, with Texas Publisher Amon G. Carter, the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth...