Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rump flourishes mostly along the state's industrial Gulf Coast, among its Mexican-American minority concentrated in the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere in south Texas, and on some college campuses. As a group, it has rarely been able to wrest control of the state government from the oil, land and financial barons who have traditionally kept conservative Democrats in power. The liberals' chief foe nowadays is Governor John Connally, an old L.B.J. ally, who nonetheless has repeatedly blocked such Great Society-oriented proposals as state minimum-wage and industrial-safety laws...
...queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes on the mammy wagons seemed symbolically apt. "God knows best," read one; "I shall return," promised another. But the most appropriate said: "Man must whack...
...Will. After the Yemen fiasco, Phillips took refuge in Oman in 1952 and became a good friend of Sultan Said bin Taimur. He went into the oil business one day when the Sultan, after complaining that he had not found oil like other Middle Eastern rulers, said to Phillips, "And by the will of God we shall have oil, for I am granting you the oil concession for Dhofar." Dhofar, an area the size of Ohio, has not yet produced any oil. But it made Phillips a millionaire, because he divided his 21% interest in the concession into...
...Phillips turned to Libya after dropping the usual string of names and introductions, was soon in conference with King Idris working out an oil concession. Phillips' original 3% interest in the 9,000-sq,-mi. concession has been lost to sight in a series of transfers. The concession is now held by W. R. Grace & Co. and Sinclair Oil, and the field operator is Standard Oil of New Jersey. None of these companies deals directly with Phillips, but he is believed to be drawing from $100,000 to $200,000 annually from royalties on the Ra-guba well, which...
...Much? Phillips participates in further concessions in Venezuela giving him an interest in a total of 87,000 square miles of potential or working oil land. "How much money do I have?" asks Phillips. "Someone came up with a figure of $364 million. I don't know where he got it. I don't know what I am worth. Certainly, the Libyan holding is worth far more than that...