Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Calumet's racing headquarters was Barn 41, at Belmont Park, once base of operations for Oilman Harry F. Sinclair's all-conquering Rancocas Stable. Despite the barnyard-like peace that always hangs over the stable area at dawn, there was an undertone of excitement around Barn 41. Boys from other stables, trudging past on their way to a cup of coffee, eyed it as a country boy would the big house on the hill...
...customer's whims has put Linz Bros. "Jewelists" (a copyrighted coinage) in a class by itself. To gladden its clients' eyes, Linz has turned out gold and platinum cowboy belt buckles, and jeweled stickpins shaped like oil derricks (one of them for a late-shopping oilman who amused himself while he waited by tossing silver dollars on the floor ahead of the janitor's broom). But such spectacular baubles are only the showy side of a solid, 72-year-old trade that grosses $2,000,000 a year...
Perhaps you will recall some recent TIME stories about Texas: the opening of Oilman Glenn McCarthy's $21 million Shamrock hotel in Houston; the successful financing of a 1,825-mile pipeline to pump gas from the Rio Grande to Manhattan; and a sketch of Oscar Holcombe, nine times mayor of Houston, where downtown property sells for $2,000 a front inch...
...much is it worth to have the President's ear? Two and a half months ago a sympathetic Manhattan jury decided that if the whisperer was Oilman James A. Moffett, it was worth plenty. The jury awarded the onetime FHAdministrator a fat $1,150,000 judgment in his suit against Arabian American Oil Co., Inc. for certain "services rendered" (TIME, Feb. 28). The services, according to Moffett, were very special. Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud had demanded an extra $6,000,000 a year from Aramco in 1941, on the threat of tearing up its multi-billion...
...Surpassing Texas Oilman Edgar B. Davis, who, some 20 years ago, poured $1,500,000 into a dismal play called The Ladder (789 performances) until he ended up giving all tickets away. Not comparable are Abie's Irish Rose (2,327 performances) and Tobacco Road (3,182 performances); both defied the critics with their lengthy runs-but eager customers put up the money...