Word: oilman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...races, last week's Outboard World Championship was the biggest, richest and roughest in history. The eight-hour marathon had 111 drivers fighting for $50,000 in prize money, much of it put up by Havasu's developer, Oilman Robert McCulloch. Between them, Outboard Marine and Kiekhaefer Mercury had no fewer than 40 boats in the field. By the end of the race, most of the craft were fit only for beach-party kindling. Within the first two hours, gusty 20-m.p.h. winds caused at least a dozen boats to flip into spray-spewing somersaults; others slammed sickeningly...
...Oilman first made contact with the FBI nearly two years ago, after becoming "concerned" about activities he observed in his job that he "considered to be a threat to the security" of the U.S. He soon found himself on the FBI payroll at about $150 a month, plus expenses. Whenever he heard of "a subversive Communist front organization, the S.D.S., or how a bunch of radicals-I knew most of the radicals -were going to burn their draft cards, I would call the FBI." He tried, he says, to keep his news and FBI work separate, but as his Bureau...
There or Here. Oilman has returned to his old job at the San Diego station. "I came back from the trial prepared to take the consequences," he says, "prepared to be fired, but it's been two and a half weeks now and nothing has happened. I told the news director at the station that I didn't think that what I had done would affect my work." Despite criticism from his colleagues, Oilman adds: "I would do it all over again...
...Chicago, hundreds of feet of network news-film-some of it never intended for broadcast-were introduced into the conspiracy trial over defense objections that such a move violates the freedom and independence of the press. "It's just that I am in the wrong occupation," Carl Oilman said last week. "If I had been a construction worker or a ditch digger, none of this would have mattered." Precisely...
Last year in Texas, 44 paintings in the collection of Dallas Oilman Algur Hurtle Meadows turned out to be phonies. Most duped collectors are usually so sore in their pride that they say nothing or try to recoup quietly. Others, who have unwittingly donated forgeries to museums for big tax write-offs, discover that discretion is the better part of value. Not A. H. Meadows. After publicly calling himself "Mr. Sap," he pressed charges. Investigations led to the discovery of one of the most successful art swindles in modern history...