Word: driller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three outraged Sunnyside residents (an oil-well driller, a salvage-store manager, a garage owner) dug up a 1923 deed restriction, brought suit to have the Bernals evicted. The charge: the Bernals "are both Mexicans, or persons other than of the Caucasian race...
...tall, big-framed Eugene Holman, now 47 and in charge of all production. Starting with Standard's great subsidiary Humble Oil, Holman became president of Lago Petroleum in Venezuela, Standard's other big crude producer. Holman still maintains a first name basis with many a Texas driller, is also respected in Washington where he has been serving on the Petroleum Industry War Council. Last week it looked as if the mantle of Rockefeller, Teagle and Farish would fall...
Ragsdale works out of TIME'S Washington office, but because of his rough and tumble travel experiences he is apt to be ordered anywhere. Educated at the University of Washington and at the Sorbonne, he has been a professional fighter, a logger, an oil driller, an extra in the Ballet Russe, a stevedore in Alaska, a publicity man for a symphony orchestra -and he sailed in the fo'c'sle to South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Orient...