Word: leaseholder
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...that was definitely left of Crowell-Collier was a record-club division, Los Angeles Radio Station KFWB, a leasehold on the Crowell-Collier Building (worth up to $800,000), and P. F. Collier & Son Corp., the book-publishing subsidiary, which, said Lannan, a director of Manhattan publisher Henry Holt...
After the sale Texas Co. announced that its Navajo C-4 was indeed a producing well, pumping an average 642 bbls. of high-grade oil daily, and oilmen felt much of the nearby leasehold could be considered proven oil land. Then two more wells came in on Navajo land. Superior Oil brought in its Navajo B-1 well, with 1,402 bbls. daily, and Gulf Oil brought in its Desert Creek No. 1 well...
...always so. The Jesuits had no permanent headquarters in England until the mid-19th century, when official tolerance at last encouraged them to establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant era was handsome, well-born Father Bernard Vaughan...
...part-time sporting-goods clerk from Melbourne, showed no sign that he had such an opinion. He explained his victory over Schroeder simply: "I never played better in my life." But Australia, with 21-year-old Ken McGregor and 22-year-old Sedgman, appeared to have established a leasehold on the big cup for a few years, at least...
Whether the field turns out to be oil or nothing, 69-year-old Farmer Cottingham is sitting pretty. With his own 390 acres, plus his two daughters' 320, he has royalty rights to a rich chunk of the Carter leasehold. Last week, in overalls and rubber boots, Farmer Cottingham phlegmatically cleared ground for more corn and cotton. But the gossips in Oklahoma City whispered that he had already been offered $10,000 for the royalty rights to a mere ten of his 710 acres...