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...President of Minneapolis' Northern Ordnance, Inc. is a profane, rambunctious, Texas-born individual named John Blackstock Hawley Jr., 44. In the space of 15 months, Gunmaker Hawley has also become the biggest driller of wildcat oil wells in the U.S. And in all the rough-&-tough oil industry no one has yet been able to top Hawley's three-word description of himself: "I'm a pirate...
Break the Rules. Hawley proudly brags that he knows nothing about oil. But he firmly believes that: 1) all Texans are automatically oil-wise; 2) the way to get ahead fast is to break every rule in the book. The son of Major John Blackstock Hawley, who ran the water system for the U.S. Army in France in World War I, Wildcatter Hawley started breaking the rules after he graduated from Cornell in 1920. A consumptive, he was sent to a sanatorium to rest. Instead, he invented a score of gadgets, earned...
...Just as improbable was Dempsey's behavior as referee at a heavyweight wrestling bout last week in Alexandria, La. When one of the combatants, Marshall Blackstock, would not quit choking and slugging his opponent, Referee Dempsey stopped him with a right jab that laid open his face...
...Hardtner, just across the Kansas line, lived two farmers, Jacob Achenbach and Ira B. Blackstock. When Hardtner had been left railroadless by the Missouri Pacific these two men had built a railroad to Kiowa. ten miles away. Their fame as railroad builders had spread. The farmers of Beaver called upon them for help. Soon the Beaver, Meade $ Englewood Railroad Co. had a train running. But profits were hard to get, and in 1918 Carl J. Turpin of Oklahoma City, an ex-railroader, was called in as general manager. He soon had things shipshape along the seven-mile right...
During this period of expansion Vice President Blackstock moved to Springfield, 111.; President Achenbach began to feel old. Railroads which had refused to enter the territory themselves began to want the B. M. & E. Last week its officials met in their small Oklahoma City office, completed a deal whereby M-K-T will get the road and equipment (three locomotives, 12 box cars, two section cars, two cabooses) for about $2,300,000. This, estimated 83-year-old President Achenbach, compares to a cost of $2,100,000, a profit of about $2,000 a mile...