Word: mecom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Team owner John Mecom Jr. of Houston and the wealthy. Pritzker family of Chicago have been trying to make a multi-million deal for weeks...
DIED. John W. Mecom Sr., 70, former oilfield roustabout whose success at turning abandoned wells into profitable operations, along with his initiative hi developing new fields in locales from Louisiana to Saudi Arabia, once ranked him with independent Oil Tycoons J. Paul Getty and H.L. Hunt; of a heart ailment; in Houston. An unpretentious man who never had a chauffeur (but who occasionally donned a chauffeur's cap to drive his wife around in a limousine), "Big John" at times was estimated to be worth more than $200 million, but in 1970 filed two bankruptcy petitions. Out of that...