Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People had always liked Louise Peete. In 1919 her soothing manner had attracted a wealthy old Los Angeles oilman named Jacob C. Denton. She leased his house, and agreed to let him stay on in it. Soon she was using his car, paying his bills, handling his business with bankers. On the night of June 1, 1920, after months of happy companionship, Jake Denton disappeared. Weeping, Louise Peete helped police in a fruitless hunt for clues. Then she sadly sublet his house and went to Denver, where, she said, her second husband, one Richard Peete, was divorcing...
Reparations. Oilman Edwin W. Pauley, the No. 1 U.S. reparations man, said in Washington that Germany should be stripped of all capacity to make armaments, but not completely de-industrialized. When he and his colleagues join the Big Three reparations commission in Moscow, they will probably find the Russians in general agreement with this view. But they will also find a basic, significant difference in the Russian and U.S.-British approach to the reparations problem. The U.S. and Britain regard reparations largely as a means to.an end-the pacification of Germany. The Russians are interested in reparations for the sake...
...practical politician like Harry Tru man, Californian Edwin Wendell Pauley had a claim to a good job. Big, hulking Ed Pauley, operating oilman (Petrol Corp.) and fast-moving dealer in California oil properties, was a faithful, hard-working political war horse - treasurer of the Dem ocratic National Committee, a crack money-raiser, a tried & trusted Truman friend to boot. But there were few cheers in Washington last week when Harry Tru man announced that Ed Pauley was to be the U.S. member of the Allied Reparations Commission, with the rank of Ambassador...
...Oilman Frank Phillips watched with dismay while federal taxes and Oklahoma state levies ate deeper & deeper into his $50,000-a-year salary as board chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. Finally the salary (a minor item of the Phillips income, anyhow) seemed to vanish altogether...
Overtime. In South Fallsburg, N.Y., Oilman John Lanahan, working overtime, found he was short of pipe fittings, went to the plumber's to get some, heard the plumber had gone to the movies, followed him there. He arrived in time to hear his own name called for the $200 bank-night prize, quickly claimed the cash for which he had registered the last time he went to the movies, four years...