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There was still one final worry: would the proportional system encourage splinter parties? Majority Leader Scott Lucas suggested a change which would require the winner to poll at least 40% of the electoral vote. If no candidate gets 40% of the vote, the winner would be picked from the two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The People's Choice | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Three dry holes had been drilled in the dome before the arrival of an engineer, prospector and onetime Austrian naval officer named A. F. Lucas. Lucas drilled a fourth "duster at Spindletop." Undiscouraged, he set up new equipment and began again, determined to pierce 500 ft. of quicksand which lay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Jackpots. After Spindletop, in the superlatives of the oilfields, came a jillion jackpots-roaring booms at Electra, Ranger, Burkburnett, Desdemona and Mexia proved that oil was where you found it. The automobile age created a rising demand, and after the Lucas No. 1, Texas wildcatters never stopped their probing in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: King of the Wildcatters | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

In the Havana gym, Scott Lucas accepted Dirksen's challenge-and managed to make foreign aid sound like a local assistance program. "The next time a smooth gentleman tells you we are pouring money down a rathole," he said, "ask him whether he means the money which has gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Torchlights in Havana | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Then Scott Lucas was off, like the pigeon, for Washington, to spend most of the next six months on the job, while Dirksen makes hay on the hustings.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Torchlights in Havana | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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