Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado, Alva Blanchard Adams. Pueblo banker, onetime (1923-24) Senator, and nephew of the present Governor, nosed out John T. Barnett, wealthy Denver oilman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination, vice Senator Charles Winfield Waterman, deceased. Attorney Karl Cortlandt Schuyler of Denver easily won the Republican nomination. The Democratic primary vote rose from 47.000 in 1930 to 122,000 whereas the Republican primary vote declined from...
Between the University of Southern California and the family of famed Oilman Edward Laurence ("Teapot Dome") Doheny there has been close financial and sentimental association. Busy prospecting for gold in his youth, Oilman Doheny had no time to go beyond high school. But his son Edward Laurence Jr. ("Ned") went to U. S. C., was graduated in 1916. After serving as lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he became a member of the University alumni council, later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great...
Eight years ago Dentist Charles Arthur Furrow started a rainbow trout fishing club at Bennett Springs. Mo. Two years later he sold the club to the State and with Oilman Frederick Lawrence Bailliere of Tulsa, Okla. bought a new site nine miles northeast of Stoutland on which they began raising rainbow trout commercially. Trout raising proved unprofitable, so they decided to raise goldfish and went in search of a goldfish expert...
...They are bailed out of the ponds, sorted in troughs, placed in cans for shipment. During the trip the water in their cans is changed every eight hours. Ozark goldfish have stocked President Hoover's Rapidan camp (choicest varieties were kept in the White House), the Woolaroc ranch of Oilman Frank Phillips, the Bureau of Fisheries' aquarium exhibition. Fish Master Nakashima does not raise his goldfish for scientific experiments, but some of them may find their way into laboratories...
...still in business up to both elbows, from service station to executive sanctum. Last week, for example, Oilman Sinclair wanted to be in Los Angeles. He left Manhattan for Chicago. There, in the morning, he saw two bankers about his company's business, met with a vice president and the district managers. He kept a business appointment in nearby Barrington. The next day he flew to Tulsa, central operating point for his company and terminus for its big telegraph system. He passed two days meeting with depart mental managers, discussing leases, pur chases, operations. The next day he flew...