Word: oil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oster drove to St. Martinsville, where a fabulously gifted and ancient crone was supposed to live. Oster found not one, but two old women waiting for him on the front porch of a house that had a statue of the Virgin in the front yard and an oil well in the back. Neither of the old girls could sing a note. On the other hand, Oster has found that many a performer can be coaxed to song with a little priming. In French and Cajun settlements, he tries to build his listeners' confidence by singing a few songs himself...
...attended Waco's Baylor University and Abilene's Simmons College, left after telling friends that he saw no reason to spend his time in the library when there was so much money to be made on the outside. He served a three-year apprenticeship in the oil business as salesman, scout and leaseman, left the oilfields to return to his first love, cattle raising. His herd died of tick fever, putting him $6,000 in debt to the Athens bank. After another hitch in the oilfields, Richardson returned to Athens a year later in a brand new Cadillac...
...drove right into a million dollars when he began trading in oil leases, was wiped out in 1921, when oil prices tumbled, made another fortune and went broke again early in the Depression, when overproduction in the East Texas fields brought posted prices down to 10? a barrel. He lived on credit, unable to pay either his office rent or his $8 monthly dues at the Fort Worth Club. In 1932, as oil prices began to rise, Sid came out of hibernation...
Richardson's interests soon moved beyond oil. He advised F.D.R. on oil production during World War II, traveled to SHAPE in Paris in 1952 to help persuade
...story casts French Actor Michel Simon as an old, overstuffed priest. A village washerwoman (Sylvie) tells him that she is 62, tired and alone. For uncounted years she has turned out every morning at 5 to kneel washing clothes until dark, stopping only for a little bread and oil. Would the father and the church now mercifully grant her leave to take her own life? Another story is a screen version of Novelist Alberto Moravia's II Pupo. A straitened young couple have had one baby too many. They try to abandon it in a church, but it cries...