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...five original companies backing the line, headed by Texan Clint Murchison, invested some $15 million in stock at the insiders' price of $8 a share. These holdings are now worth $43 a share, or $82 million. Influential speculators got big chunks of the $37.5 million public issue, which is now worth $161 million. Fantastic speculative profits were also made in three companies set up to gather or distribute the gas Trans-Canada will bring. Vancouver Oilman Ralph K. Farris, son of a Liberal Senator and founder of the Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co., paid $300 for stock now worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Quick Quarter-Billion | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman Clint Murchison and others, the process eliminates the blast furnace and promises to smelt iron cheaper and faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Rival for the Blast Furnace | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...only one of five similar direct-reduction processes that are getting the close attention of steelmen. Though none is yet in sizable commercial use, the Madaras process is working successfully in a 50-ton-a-day steel mill making plates and light-gauge sheets in Monterrey, Mexico. Madaras and Murchison are presently negotiating with eight groups, five in the U.S. and three abroad, to set up 500-ton-a-day plants costing $3.5 million and expandable to 2,000 tons by an additional $3.5 million investment. They expect to announce one or more sign-ups in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Rival for the Blast Furnace | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...President Henry Ford II, 39, $400 million. Tied for No. 4: Sun Oil Co.'s publicity-shy Board Chairman Joseph Newton Pew Jr., 70, and Avia-tionabob Howard Hughes, 51, $350 million each. No. 5: Texas Oilman Clint ("After the first hundred million, what the heck?") Murchison, 62, $300 million. Tied for No. 6: Pittsburgh's far-visioned Banking Heir Paul Mellon, 49, St. Louis's fun-loving Brewer (Budweiser) August A. ("Gussie") Busch. Jr., 58, and money-pouring Philanthropist John Davison Rockefeller III, 51. In the No. 7 spot and tenth richest: the Coca-Cola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...After equaling the world's indoor record for the 60-yd. dash (6.1 sec.) in a semifinal heat, Olympian Ira Murchison nosed out the Army's Ken Kave in the finals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Hustlers | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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