Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down a similar ruling against the state of California three years ago. But in Texas, the news struck like a tornado. Texans protested that the state's title to submerged coastal lands dated back more than 100 years to its days as an independent republic. Raged San Antonio Oilman Fred W. Shield: "It is absolutely a steal from the state of Texas...
...learned nothing else in all his years of wildcatting, Houston's Oilman Glenn McCarthy thought he knew one thing at least: how to keep his creditors happy. Last week he made them happy, all right-but only...
When Multimillionaire Southwest Oilman William H. McFadden told his agents to hire the best guides available, they lost no time signing up bearded, barrel-chested, Bible-reading Ben Lilly, 64, the most indefatigable hunter of bears and mountain lions in the West. With four mule-drawn wagons and a small army of dogs, horses, pack mules, cooks and a photographer, McFadden and a party of his friends started north. Hunter Ben Lilly's chief mission: "To get McFadden a chance at a grizzly bear...
...shipped along some California hay to mix with the Kentucky brand, so that the chestnut colt would feel as much at home as possible. Veteran Jockey Johnny Longden had flown in from the West Coast to ride him in the seven-furlong prep race. The competition included Tulsa Oilman Tom Gray's Oil Capitol-Kentucky Derby favorite (5-2) and one of the best of the three-year-old crop by anybody's standards...
Although state authorities have tried to stop the waste, Oklahoma oilmen were still blowing off great quantities of gas last week rather than run what one oilman called the "tremendous risk" of FPC regulation. For the same reason, hundreds of gas wells have been capped, and new pipeline operators have found it hard to line up contracts for sufficient gas. The majority of those who did had to agree that the contracts would be canceled if FPC got control over gas prices. One result: out of the 5.7 trillion cubic feet of gas produced in the Southwest in 1948, only...