Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your statement which appeared in the Dec. 24 issue: "[Charles Oliphant] had flown to the Kentucky Derby in the plane of Edwin Pauley, the California oilman, who also was the defendant in a tax case...
There were other similar Oliphant social sorties. He had gone to Florida on a fishing trip as the guest of a man in tax trouble. He had flown to the Kentucky Derby in the plane of Edwin Pauley, the California oilman, who also was the defendant in a tax case...
...Texas delegation is caught up in a fight for control of the state party machinery. National Committeeman Henry Zweifel and State Chairman Orville Bullington are for Taft. If they stay in the saddle they can deliver 32 votes. Zweifel is challenged for control of the party by Houston Oilman H. J. Porter, an Ikeman. As in most organizational political fights, the incumbent bosses have a big advantage...
...December, when his second daughter Glennalee, 17, eloped with her young highschool sweetheart George Pontikes, the son of an immigrant Greek cobbler, Millionaire Glenn McCarthy flew into the classic fatherly rage. By last week, however, time and normal events had softened the blow, and photographers caught the terrible-tempered oilman in the classic pose of a new grandfather. Glennalee had presented him with his first granddaughter. Her name: Glennalee McCarthy Pontikes...
...acres leased from the State of Mississippi.* Gulf may well sink millions without result. But Swensrud is not perturbed. Gulf, a pioneer in the science of petroleum geophysics, has helped trim the odds against finding oil from 15-to-1 to a mere 5-to-1. To an oilman, that's a good...