Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...placid rides along the Tenn-Tom are complaining about the growing number of barges loaded with coal, chemicals and other freight. Since the drought has made the Mississippi more hazardous for some vessels, many shippers have turned to the Tenn-Tom, still easily navigable. Says Joe Pyne, president of Houston-based Dixie Carriers: "Without it, some companies would have shut down." In July the waterway carried 2 million tons of cargo, the first time that mark was reached in a single month. So far this year, 5.8 million tons have been hauled, vs. 4 million tons...
...wave of consolidation in the financial industry is far from over. Competition is growing both among U.S. bankers and with foreign institutions. "There won't be 14,000 banks and 3,000 thrift institutions forever," says Robert Abboud, the former First Chicago president who last year became head of Houston's failing First City as part of a federal rescue. But not even a tough survivor like Abboud knows which banks will stay and which will...
...French Quarter seem like the Saturday night of the Tulane-L.S.U. game. The French Quarter, particularly along its river edge, was slicked up for the increasing stream of visitors. As all of that began in the middle '70s. there was some grumbling about New Orleans turning into another Houston. My impression was not that New Orleans / was becoming much more like Houston but that it was becoming more like Houston's idea of what New Orleans ought to be -- a slicker, more conveniently packaged version of itself that some people called a "Creole Disneyland...
...seem strange, given his father's patrician Republican background, but Bush, who never convincingly took on Texas mannerisms, accepted the values of Midland County as unquestioningly as he had those of Andover. When he had acquired the minimum fortune for a Texas businessman (under a million) and moved to Houston, he ran for the Senate in Barry Goldwater's year, 1964, berating the villains of Midland and Odessa, as well as of Houston -- Walter Reuther, the U.N. and Martin Luther King...
This was a period when Eastern Establishment Republicans were figures of hate and ridicule to "real" Republicans who backed Goldwater, the year Charles Percy and George Romney were lumped with Nelson Rockefeller as traitors to the party. Yet here, in Houston, was a Republican looking more like a Saltonstall than a Lyndon Johnson, but who was as hard as Barry against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Once again, Bush was extending the spirit of the tough summer job. Rich kids are supposed to go out and join the workers in the field, but they are also supposed to come home...