Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like his father before him, George Berham Parr, 47, is the political boss of oil-rich Duval County, in the southernmost appendix of Texas. He is also a banker, beer baron, oil promoter and lawyer. He went to jail for Federal income-tax evasion in 1936. After he got out, one year later, he began again to stretch his grip beyond his small core of about 5,000 Mexican-American voters in Duval to take in the Democratic machines of several neighboring counties...
...International Basic Economy Corp. to carry out the idea that good can be done at a profit by helping Latin American countries increase their food output. In Venezuela, some of his model farms were already about to show a profit. But there, the government and the oil companies had put up part of the capital, and smoothed the way. In Brazil it was different...
...preferred a flyer in Rio real estate, for a possible 200% profit, to Rockefeller's 5% projects. Others found it hard to believe that Rockefeller was not just trying to give away his money. Some xenophobes spread the story that the projects were just fronts for spying out oil deposits...
Bound by that stern poetic creed, Louisiana Story traces a symbolic story. The wallowing amphibious machines of an oil company invade the idyllic peace of a Louisiana bayou. Flaherty juxtaposes a tense chase sequence-alligator v. coon in the swamp water-and the tumultuous pursuit of oil by the monster, man-made drilling derricks which can plunge pipes 14,000 feet into the earth. Throughout this blending of themes, the bonds of humanity between oil riggers and a Cajun boy illumine the recurrent thesis of Flaherty's works: "Mankind is one community...
Sheep & Goats. Nanook cost $53,000 and the bill was paid by a fur company. Louisiana Story cost $258,000 and an oil company picked up the tab, specifying that its name was not to be tagged on the film. For oilmen, the film does its job by showing that oil comes from the sweat and courage of common men, not from an inanimate "industrial octopus." As a subtle piece of public relations, Louisiana Story may inspire many successors...