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...Back. The scandal was enough to send other oilmen creeping into private life. But not Sinco. He thrust out Iris jaw belligerently, and started to come back. Overnight he made $3,000,000 in a pool in Sinclair stock. He built an 800-mile pipeline from Drumright, Okla. to Chicago, and netted a company profit of $28,000,000 by selling it to his archrival, Standard Oil of Indiana. Shortly after, he made a deal with John D. Rockefeller Jr., who had fired Standard's Colonel Robert Stewart for his part in the Dome scandal, to merge his fast...
...desk sat Wayne Taylor; at Wayne Taylor's right sat lank, birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle, who had flown in from Washington at 4 a.m., rushed to Ward's after an hour's sleep at the Drake Hotel. His eyes were red-rimmed; his jaw...
...much of a homebody despite her appearance, used to make all her own clothes, cooks gigantic dinners of arroz con polio for massive gatherings of friends. The Reyes have an eight-year-old son named Angel. When asked his name, he invariably doubles up his fists, juts out his jaw and growls "Angel, wanna make somethin' of it?" Raul speaks perfect American, smokes big cigars and worries about his diminutive wife's health. To keep her strength up, he feeds her a pint of oatmeal every morning and insists that she take One-A-Day vitamin pills twice...
Around the Sub Base at Pearl Harbor, "Mush" Morton and the Wahoo were a legend. Mush, Kentucky-born, was a solid man with a shock of blond hair, a wrestler's shoulders and a jaw like a boulder. The Wahoo was a lean, sinister submarine...
...Army D.S.C.; the Wahoo, a Presidential unit citation. In two historic patrols Mush and the Wahoo had sunk 69,000 tons of the Emperor's shipping. Among the U.S. submarine fleet, which has sunk altogether some 355 Jap ships, Wahoo was a high scorer. Sticking his jaw out, Mush would say modestly: "We were lucky enough to see a lot of Jap ships and when you see a lot you're apt to sink...