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Word: oilman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that book in the window?/ The one that says all the smart things./ How much is that book in the window?/ I do hope to learn all it brings!" They were plugging a novel titled Alpaca, a weird pitch for Utopian plutocracy authored and published by their daddy, Oilman H. L. Hunt, 71, long the fearless Big Daddy to many a far-right crusade (Wisconsin's late Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, Facts Forum, radio's current Life Line program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Palm Beach's fabulous white marble Flagler Museum came back to life when some 425 very social guests attended the pinnacle event of Florida's winter season. The museum was once Whitehall Mansion, home of Oilman Henry Morrison Flagler, a Rockefeller partner who, before his death in 1913, almost singlehanded, transformed much of southern Florida from wasteland into alluring real estate. Built in 1902 at a cost of $2,500,00. Whitehall's 39 rooms include a cavernous (110 ft. by 40 ft.) tapestried main hall that once contained one of the largest Persian Kirmanshah rugs ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1960 | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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