Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houston Oil Millionaire Wright Morrow made his move. He resigned as Democratic National Committeeman, and commented that he had "the advice of the state Democratic convention to support Eisenhower...
...newspaper publisher, Glenn McCarthy operates on the same theory as he does when he is wildcatting for oil: if at first you don't succeed, just pour in another hundred thousand or so. Five years ago, McCarthy bought up the Citizen chain of nine neighborhood throwaways in Houston and put his theory into practice. For some time the going was rough; Citizen bill collectors went knocking on advertisers' doors the day their ads appeared. But McCarthy, undaunted, poured $1,000,000 into his chain, expanded into Houston suburbs as well as south into Texas City and the Freeport...
...Houston, the city council voted to accept a new $2,700,000 police headquarters and jail, but withheld $25,000 from Architect Kenneth Frankheim's fee because he had his name engraved in marble on the front of the building, put the names of councilmen on a bronze plaque inside...
...Ashworth of Wenham, Mass., what he should do. Try Nagasaki, said Commander Ashworth. With just enough fuel left for a single bomb run, the navigator, Captain James F. Van Pelt Jr. of Oak Hill, W. Va., hit Nagasaki exactly "on the nose." The bombardier, Captain Kermit K. Beaham of Houston, saw a hole in the clouds...
Last week, the day before the SEC okayed the registration and Houston's B. V. Christie & Co. got ready to sell the stock, McCarthy ran into more trouble. Dallas' Dresser Industries, Inc., which had installed $2,500,000 worth of equipment in the Texas Gas Corp. plant, sued McCarthy for a million. Charged the Dresser company: McCarthy had failed to pay a penny on $836,289 in promissory notes signed three years ago. At one time McCarthy had tried to settle the debt for $25,000, but while Dresser was dickering. McCarthy withdrew the offer...