Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carter is a smart, aggressive publisher, and knows better than to harbor any literary pretensions (by the widest estimate he has read no more than a dozen books in the last half century). He sees the promotion of Fort Worth as one of his major publishing duties, on the theory that whatever makes the city grow will, in time, make the Star-Telegram grow. It works. Friends estimate that at least one person out of four, in Fort Worth's current metropolitan population of 303,701, is there because of an industry, office or military installation which was coaxed...
Carter's public and pecuniary motives coincided happily in various other ways. Because Fort Worth was rapidly becoming an oil center as well as a cattle town, Carter became interested in oil. He drilled 99 dry holes and was known as the "dry-hole king" before he ever reached production-a record that would baffle a professional oilman. Yet when he got production, as they say in Texas, he got it good, and sold out one chunk of his holdings for $16.5 million. When Fort Worth's largest hotel was in danger of being bought by a Dallas...
...work and responsibility he carries. At times he admits: "I'm tired. I don't know why I do all this." But in the next breath, he will order lunch for 300, plan a benefit show, browbeat a railroad president to get switching facilities for a Fort Worth factory, telephone New York, bully a tightfisted friend into giving $5,000 to a Carter charity, oversee the decorative detail for the men's lavatories in the new $12 million Amon Carter airport, plot another skirmish with that old devil Dallas, or order gift packages of aged whisky, western...
...case or two of Gordon's gin. But he takes on an unwelcome passenger, Katharine Hepburn, a prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart into running the guns of a German fort, shooting perilous rapids down to a lake patrolled by an enemy gunboat. Her object is to sink the gunboat with a homemade torpedo...
After the job was done, he was sent to a fort in Montana, later was ordered to the Point as an instructor. But life there was too dull. Work was about to start on the Panama Canal, and Wood, scenting excitement and opportunity, got himself shifted to the job. A week after he arrived, yellow fever downed most of the Canal Commission's top men. Lieut. Wood, then 26, who had "no idea of letting myself come down with yellow fever," was put in charge of several hundred men to build barracks for 10,000 laborers...