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Walking Delegate. Big Bill Hutcheson first swaggered out of the Michigan woods in 1902 to join up with the old A.F.L. carpenters' union and go to work in nearby Midland at 20? an hour. A bull-shouldered 220-pounder, he soon bruised and fought his way into local prominence, four years later got a job as walking delegate, or business agent, of the carpenters' local. His full-time job was to patrol building jobs, call strikes when necessary and keep a sharp watch on employers. He also kept a sharp watch on union politics, got himself named...
Memphis, Tennessee; Secretary: Robert S. Carney '20-'21. 3551 Midland, Memphis...
...Ranezays are bound for Midland...
Prices were soaring in Midland; office space was at a premium. In the suburbs, palatial ranch-style houses were going up almost overnight. Downtown, modest skyscrapers poked into the air. One small operator called Jack Kelsey caught the spirit by buying an 8-ft.-by-13-ft. shack, moving it into his backyard, and putting up a sign-'The Kelsey Building...
...Play. Midland owed its boom to a quirk of nature and a persistent wildcatter named Arthur ("Tex") Harvey. Though Harvey knew that little oil had been found around Midland, he decided three years ago to take a chance anyway. He drilled down 12,000 feet to a stratum in which oil has been found elsewhere in Texas. The hole was dry. Then Harvey wondered what he might have missed on the way down. Working his well back, he got a little oil. Finally, in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands of the "Spraberry trend,"* at 8,000 ft., Tex Harvey...