Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DISCOVERY in Wise County, Texas is turning into a bonanza. Developers, including Millionaire Houston Oilman R. E. ("Bob") Smith (TIME, May 24), have just signed a $100 million gas sale contract with the Natural Gas Pipeline Co., which will build a 280-mile line from the field to Pampa. There it will connect with the company's pipeline carrying gas northward to Midwest markets...
...Texas Oilman Clint W. Murchison, who likes nothing better than a big, complicated deal, last week stepped into a real brain-twister. In the process, the big wheeler-dealer hoped to get his first listing on the New York Stock Exchange...
...Hilton-Statler combination (TIME, Aug. 16). So do changing business tides. The Paramount Theatre chain, making money in a troubled industry, was a natural to combine with American Broadcasting, which was losing money in the promising new field of television. One of the reasons advanced for Oilman Clint Murchison's current interest in Follansbee Steel (see Tycoons) is that the steel company has a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, something that Murchison has never...
Died. George R. ("Machine Gun") Kelly, 59, onetime minor-league bootlegger who hit the big time in 1933 with the kidnaping and $200,000 ransoming of Oklahoma Oilman Charles F. Urschel; of a heart ailment; in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans...
...Shippers Kenneth Dawson and William Sexton, Builders Harry Morrison and Stephen Bechtel, Oilman Richard Hanna and Philippine Industrialist Andres Soriano. - Named for Cuffe's alma mater, the University of California. A golden bear on a blue background is also the line's trademark...