Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howie Houston's freshman team will meet Exeter away on Saturday, the first match for the Yardlings after a two-month period of inactivity. The '55 squad is undefeated and un scored upon, with a 38 to 0 victory over M.I.T.'s freshmen, and a 33 to 0 win over the Crimson jayvees...
...Edmund made his concert debut in Rome in 1924. After nine years in Stuttgart, and another nine conducting the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo orchestra on international tours, Efrem settled down in the U.S., built up the Kansas City Philharmonic for five years before moving on to Houston. Edmund made his U.S. debut as a virtuoso in 1945. Meanwhile, their eldest brother, Arved, had become an educator; he now heads the New York College of Music...
...seemed like a belated Christmas to Moye, it was all in the day's work for Humble's 58-year-old, lawyer-trained President Hines Holt Baker of Houston. In the blue-chip game of oil, gambling on wildcats is part of his business. Wildcatting has helped make Humble the No. 1 U.S. producer of crude oil, and more than doubled its output in a decade (from 49 million bbls. in 1940 to 103 million in 1950). It also helped Humble boost its net profit by 66% in 1951's first half, the latest report...
Humble is 72.4% owned by Standard Oil Co. (NJ.),and is its biggest U.S. subsidiary, but Baker runs it, from the Humble Building in Houston, pretty much like a sovereignty, looks on the parent company much as Texas looks on the rest...
...step and merge. If stockholders of both lines and the Civil Aeronautics Board approve, 1½ shares of Mid-Continent common stock will be exchanged for each share of Braniff. The new line, to be called Braniff, will have 58 planes, serve 35 cities (including Tulsa, Kansas City, Houston and Chicago) in twelve states. It willbe the sixth biggest U.S. airline...