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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Houston's Gusher. Perhaps the most exciting city in the U.S. today-unplanned, individualistic, a roaring gusher of construction-is Houston. It is the energy capital of America, with more than 50 oil and natural-gas companies headquartered downtown. This clustering keeps the central city healthy, because service firms want to be near the energy giants. Since times are so good for the oil companies, everybody is prospering. Indeed, competition from the suburbs is welcomed. As Real Estate Executive Perry Waughtal puts it, "There's enough business to go around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Downtown Is Looking Up | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...many businessmen who have observed Hughes closely contend that his companies succeeded only when he left them alone. There is much to be said for that argument. Since he had little interest in drilling technology, he left Toolco alone; because it had an excellent product, it produced a gusher of profits. By contrast, Hughes meddled so much in RKO and TWA that he ultimately failed there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...since he pardoned Richard Nixon had President Gerald Ford aroused such a furor. Last week he signed into law the first phase of his economy and energy program, provoking a veritable gusher of criticism from across the political spectrum. It is an outpouring that will be hard for him to cap, and it could ultimately swamp his ambitious, multi-faceted program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Ford: Facing a Fresh Gusher of Criticism | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

...trade-for-anything pitch, Nouhan figures that December's sales would have plunged even more than the 30% drop below normal. Recently he took a flyer of a different sort and allowed $4,000 for two leases on oil wells being drilled near Traverse City, Mich. A gusher, he points out, would ease a lot of the pain and frustration of trying to sell autos in the middle of Detroit in the middle of a recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Offers He Couldn't Refuse | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...your article "An Oil Gusher Builds" [Dec. 16], you state: "The Trilateral Commission ... is considering recommending a 10% limit on the voting power that foreign interests may exercise hi American companies." This gives a false impression of the proposal I made, since it does not indicate that the 10% limit was to apply only in the case of new investment rather than that already existing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 6, 1975 | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

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