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Jackson teamed up with Ellison Mills, a Dallas drilling contractor, got $60,000 from Wise County landowners willing to take a chance. The first well came in with an estimated reserve of more than 5 billion cu. ft. of gas, worth about $500,000. But since the drillers had no customer for the gas, banks refused to lend money to drill the other two wells. Lone Star Gas, which also had gas wells in Wise County, offered to buy the well for a mere $15,000, which Jackson refused. Discouraged, he went back to his consulting work as a geologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: A Word to the Wise | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...democracy itself, that man essentially hungers for freedom, and that it cannot be denied to him forever. We must defend this principle. Otherwise, democracy and freedom will become empty words. William C. Brady '57 Marc E. Leland '59 Robert E. Ausnit '57 Edward C. Pinkus '59 A. LeRoy Ellison '58 David A. Horgan '56 David G. Taylor '57 James H. Manahan '58 Thomas E. Haskins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUNGARY | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

Ralph (The Invisible Man) Ellison (but both were living in Europe) or by Southern authors such as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren (but both chose instead to make nonfiction preachments on the subject). So an unknown, 22-year-old girl has done the job, and done it amazingly well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy out of the News | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Battle (your punctuation) reflected in many ways the difficulty of appreciating academic freedom, and it is a sad revelation that Princeton, despite enormous pressure, was unwilling to clarify the meaning of the idea. William C. Brady '57 A. LeRoy Ellison '58 Bruce A. Heck '56 James H. Manahan '58 Frank R. Rossiter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALGER HISS | 5/10/1956 | See Source »

...Road. In Richmond, Ind., Mrs. Pauline Ellison crashed into a truck while driving down an icy highway, was thrown from her car, skidded 200 feet on her briefcase, was uninjured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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