Word: cosden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three years of marriage; no children; in Juarez, Mexico. He gave Zsa Zsa two pearl necklaces; she gave him her Rolls plus a whistle "in the event he ever needs me," then flew to Santa Monica to take out a marriage license with prospective No. 5, Dallas Oilman Joshua Cosden...
...growth was spurred mainly by chemical companies, except for Jersey Standard, Gulf and Shell. But now other oil companies such as Sun Oil and Mobil are moving in fast, because the profit rate is three times more on petrochemicals than on the rest of the oil and gas business. Cosden Petroleum Corp., for instance, made 18% of its refinery output into petrochemicals...
With a stick in the wet Florida sand, Architect Addison Mizner once drew the outlines of Spanish mansions, clients gave approval on the spot, and construction crews were soon at work on such Palm Beach palaces as Playa Riente, home of Oklahoma Oil King Joshua Cosden, and El Mirasol, where Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury ruled vacationing society. Meanwhile, Addison's brother Wilson and Super-Publicist Harry Reichenbach fleshed out the Mizner principality by adhering to a golden Reichenbach rule: "Get the big snobs and the little snobs will follow...