Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fantastic Nonsense? To the bidders, this seemed like 1) nonsense and 2) the biggest of all WAA's blunders. Snorted Oilman Smith: "Fantastic." Actually, the Army-Navy board told WAA last month that it had no preference as to oil v. gas. And if WAA was going to permit the lines to be used for gas, then Littlejohn's complaint that bids were too low made little sense. Many of the bidders would gladly have raised their bids considerably if WAA had told them they could pipe gas (gas securities are more readily marketed than oil securities...
...Oilman Smith estimated that he could clean out the lines in two weeks, have oil pouring out the Eastern outlets in another two weeks. Their emergency use for gas was out of the question. Reasons: compressor pumps would have to be installed all along some 1,500 miles of pipe, and feeder lines built-a year's job. But, thanks to WAA's latest bungle, there seemed small chance that the pipelines would be used for months, for anything...
Rogge traced out the oft-told tale of the late oilman William R. Davis, who, inspired by the German Government, had tried to mediate World War II back in 1940. He also mentioned John L. Lewis, Senator Burton K. Wheeler and other touchy names in the same breath with Nazi bigwigs...
Finally one of them turned on the new Denverites. "Mrs. Molly Mayfield," whose breezy lovelorn column is the top feature in Scripps-Howard's tabloid Rocky Mountain News, had received a chiding note from the wife of an Eastern oilman. "When Denver women speak," it sniffed, "it sounds to me like the grinding of a buzz saw. Their voices are harsh and grating. They send shivers up my spine. Even those who have gone to such good Eastern schools as Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, etc., speak in an absolutely rude and unrefined manner...
...suite he had stopped making at the start of the depression. He sold 1,010 suites the first day. But buyers did not think the seller's market in furniture would last much beyond the year's end. Already there were signs of change. Said Wallace 0. Oilman, general manager of the Merchandise Mart: "There is no longer the hurried mad rush for 'anything...