Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently the junta's Seguridad National (national police), making little progress in its bumbling search for the underground's top leaders, began rounding up some of the small fry. Evelyn, who was on the point of quitting her job to marry an American oilman, came under surveillance. In two months her widowed mother's house was searched twelve times by flying squads (and burglarized twice by thieves obviously untroubled by Seguridad patrolling). One day a friend saw a station wagon and a group of small, shabby men with blank expressions and Cuban heels outside Evelyn...
...Oilman Max Thornburg, onetime administrator of Iran's defunct Seven-Year Plan, who lives part of each year like an air-conditioned Robinson Crusoe on one of the Bahrein Islands, says: "If the Point Four people really want to know how to handle this sort of thing, they should come out here and study Bahrein...
...Hoping for a fast buck, enterprising Texas Oilman Glenn McCarthy signed a contract in Paris which gave...
...various other ways. Because Fort Worth was rapidly becoming an oil center as well as a cattle town, Carter became interested in oil. He drilled 99 dry holes and was known as the "dry-hole king" before he ever reached production-a record that would baffle a professional oilman. Yet when he got production, as they say in Texas, he got it good, and sold out one chunk of his holdings for $16.5 million. When Fort Worth's largest hotel was in danger of being bought by a Dallas man, Carter fended off the dreadful civic disgrace by taking...
...Helped a Texas oilman make a deal with the Navy...