Word: oilmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unable to agree on what it should be. Several will be going on TV this week -on an ABC special-but to take individual potshots at parts of the program, not to unveil a comprehensive alternative. Executives of industries that fear they will be hurt by the energy package-oilmen, automakers, utility chiefs -are determined to maintain the statesmanlike tone they have adopted. In public they will continue to praise Carter for calling attention to an urgent problem, while expressing mildly worded disappointment with parts of it. They know that just now there is no way they can compete with...
...this point the lobbyists are zeroing in on the particular parts of the plan that they will try hardest to change. Oilmen will complain that the program is one-sided, stressing conservation, which they applaud, but neglecting production. Their aim is to persuade Congress to scrap Carter's proposed taxes on crude oil and raise costs to consumers by letting prices rise instead. Only in that way, they argue, can they get the money needed to finance new exploration. There is some talk in the industry of having the oilmen themselves propose a "windfall" tax on any profits they...
Oltmans' testimony-given under oath-was sensational stuff. De Mohrenschildt, said Oltmans, claimed he had been the middleman in a conspiracy of rich Texas oilmen, headed by the late H.L. Hunt, and anti-Castro Cubans to kill Kennedy. Oswald was one gunman, but supposedly several Cubans were also assigned to shoot the President. One could even be identified. Oltmans provided the committee with a picture of a Cuban whom he said fired shots at Kennedy. But apart from the dramatic backdrop provided by De Mohren-schildt's suicide, the story was just another series of rumors that could...
...Shortly after taking office, he promised to unveil a comprehensive national energy program by April 20. As that date nears, the President is huddling with aides and scribbling pithy comments in the margins of position papers. For the past two weeks, he has been summoning groups of union leaders, oilmen, builders and other constituencies that are likely to be affected to a series of 21 White House miniconferences on energy. For the last, at week's end, 19 ordinary citizens, chosen at random from around the country-including two students, a housewife and a cattle rancher-huddled...
...dust-bowl town of Pampa, Texas, where Woody is earning just enough money as a sign painter and square dance fiddler to keep his family from starving to death. Pampa is an oilboom town gone bust, a grim, Depressionera morning-after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust-storm stunningly conveys the awesome power...