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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...
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...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...
...Howard County Junior College after one semester to groom her 4-H animals for this year's shows, had her first taste of glory last February. Then, one of her steers won the grand-championship at Fort Worth's Southwestern Exposition, and was sold to Texas Publisher Amon Carter for $6,000. Sue dutifully turned the money over to her family, hard hit by the drought. At Chicago last week, Hotelman Albert Pick bid $20 a lb. for Sue's steer, highest price ever paid at the Chicago show.* Sue, who paid $189 for the calf, grossed...