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...another American Natural Gas Corp., Southern Natural Gas Corp. and Peoples Light & Power Corp. paid their preferred dividends in later-maturing script or not at all. As early as May there were rumors of difficulties in Tri-Utilities financing. Added troubles were the legal efforts of Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray to drive the corporation's subsidiaries out of Oklahoma, confiscate their properties on charges that they sought to make themselves a monopoly. Last week Tri-Utilities, faced with the payment of interest due on $11,197,000 of 5% debentures, and with some $2,000,000 notes...
Tight as a cocklebur Dictator-President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona stuck to the saddle of the restless Republic of Portugal last week, a saddle in which he has ridden for the past five years...
Last month bulky Governor Ross Shaw Sterling called the Texas Legislature into a 30-day special session to enact a new conservation law to curb the State's wild oil production. For 28 days the Legislature shilly-shallied, got nothing done. Meanwhile in Oklahoma Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray called out troops to shut in oil wells until the price of oil should reach $1 per bbl. (TIME, Aug. 17.) Taking cue from his neighbor, Governor Sterling last week roweled his Legislature into action one day before adjournment with a threat of martial law. To show he meant...
Martial law was matched against economic law in Oklahoma last week. The State's oil industry was the object of a dramatic experiment to see if rifles and machine guns can replace supply and demand as price fixers. Conductor of the experiment was Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray, fresh from his Red River bridge war with Texas (TIME...
...Also known as "Cocklebur Bill...