Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying-saucer stories that have landed in U.S. newspapers, the most fantastic was told by a Denver oilman named Silas M. Newton. Two years ago, he solemnly told a University of Denver science class that at least three saucers, carrying crews of tiny (30-inch) men, had landed in the U.S., that the Air Force had captured the crews and was hushing up the big story. Later, to support his tale, he cited "evidence" given by a mysterious scientist whom he called "Dr. Gee." The story told by Newton, a friend of Variety Columnist Frank Scully, got Scully started...
...Smith named 76 contributors to the fund and the amounts they had paid. The average contribution was around $250. The biggest was $1,000 by a retired Pasadena businessman. The names resembled a Who's Who of Southern California business, included Oilman Earl Gilmore, President P. G. Winnett of Bullock's department store, President Joe Crail of the Coast Federal Savings & Loan Association, Manufacturer K. T. Norris, Charles S. Howard, wealthy heir to an automobile fortune and socialite turfman, three members of the wealthy Los Angeles Rowan real estate family, and Civil Engineer Herbert Hoover...
...Busy Oilman. Spearhead of the new U.S. policy is U.S. Oilman W. Alton Jones, president of the Cities Service Co. (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), who last week left for the U.S. after four weeks in Iran. He had been there as a private citizen, but it was clear that he had at least the tacit approval of the White House and the State Department. Last week, before leaving Teheran, Jones called in reporters. Said he: no deals had been made and no details discussed, but Cities Service might help Iran revive its oil industry, and might buy some Iranian...
Said Dallas Oilman Lowell M. Glasco last week, "This is the greatest thing that ever happened to the Texas oil business." Though somewhat exaggerated, Glasco's news was indeed big; he was ready to build the first crude-oil pipeline between the west Texas oilfields and the oil-hungry West Coast. The line, to be built by Glasco's West Coast Pipeline Co., will cost $87 million, be as big as the Big Inch (24 in.). Starting from Wink, Texas, it will snake through 953 miles of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, terminating at Norwalk, near...
Trouble Galore. Glasco has had a long fight for his line. A handsome, burly (6 ft., 210 Ibs.) oilman whose father brought in the first well in Oklahoma's Key West Field, Glasco has been tramping through Washington offices for years asking for permission to build the line. Last March he took his problem to Arizona's Senator Ernest W. McFarland, who persuaded the Petroleum Administration for Defense to okay the line. To benefit Arizona, Glasco agreed to tap his line with a $17 million refinery in Florence, Ariz, capable of processing 15,000 bbls. of crude...