Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mentioned the deal to a Denver friend who then mentioned it in a conversation with an associate in Tulsa on the phone the next day, and the man in Tulsa got in touch with a Chicago bookie, who had put money into oil, and happened to be in Houston. It all didn't take over three days, and the bookie called me in Dallas...
JOAN REMINGTON Houston...
...From Houston and Albuquerque, El Paso and Denver, tough-trading oilmen from every major company have been converging on the Four Corners area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico to get in on one of the biggest oil rushes in U.S. history. The sellers: the Navajo Indians, who are fast learning to play what oilmen call "grunt and groan." As the bids for oil lands are announced, the tribesmen merely grunt, and as the prices soar higher, the oilmen groan...
...first of two similar proposals for establishing new colleges came before the Faculty. Originally mentioned "to stimulate thinking" in a high-level conference with a foundation executive, the idea that Harvard should found a "colony college" met with initial enthusiam. As conceived by its imaginative sponsors, "Harvard in Houston" would be a good way for the University to discharge any obligation it might feel to expand, while maintaining and improving its existing facilities in Cambridge. The vision, they say, was one of a New Canaan, of the kind of institution that George Ade once said could give a man "everything...
...editorial hatchetmen kept swinging to the end-and even afterward. Of his assassination, the Dallas Herald wrote: "God almighty ordered this event." Houston's Tri-Weekly Telegraph crowed: "From now until God's judgment day, the minds of men will not cease to thrill at the killing of Abraham Lincoln." But the press was not altogether blind to history. In 1864, during Lincoln's campaign for a second term, the Chicago Tribune stumped for him with prophetic words: "Half a century hence, to have lived in this age will be fame. To have served it well will...