Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduate at the University of Southern California, young Jack Crawford got some advice from his oilman father. "Son," said he, "don't go to work for anyone else if you can help it. Either go broke or make a fortune, but don't take a job." Jack Crawford took the advice. He ran a college dance band, saved up $8,000 from its bookings and, after some postgraduate work in geology at Texas A. & M., started buying oil leases in Huntington Beach, Calif, (pop. 6,000). On the west side of town and around it lies...
With $90,000 from his father and another oilman, Crawford sank his first shantytown well. It was a modest producer. He sank two more, found more oil, and started his fourth well. At dawn on New Year's Day, after playing trumpet with Horace Heidt's band in Los Angeles, Crawford hustled to the drilling site. He arrived in time to see his drillers bring in a gusher from a new formation-and start a rush of oilmen to Huntington Beach...
...CRAWFORD WHEELER Vice President The Chase National Bank New York City
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Yellow Jack, with Broderick Crawford, Dennis O'Keefe, Raymond Massey, Wally Cox, Eva Marie Saint, E. G. Marshall...
Dropped Names. Filed five years ago, the suit originally involved 186 defendants, including Du Pont Chairman Walter S. Carpenter and President Crawford H. Greenewalt. Since then, 154 of the defendants had been dropped, many of them because they were minors. Of the three top Du Ponts named, only 77-year-old Irenee survived; Lammot died at 71 before the suit went to trial, and Pierre, 84, died last spring. The suit was costly both in money (an estimated $5,000,000 for the defense, including $750,000 in hotel bills alone) and in men: the defense required a battery...