Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest wartime wildcatter is H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. Last week on his E.P. (stands for Edvardus Princeps) ranch, 65 miles southwest of Calgary, a rotary drill was gouging the earth. The Duke had joined the search for the elusive oil pool under Alberta...
...supervise the job the Duke had called in aging Dr. Barnum Brown, a world-famed paleontologist and curator of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, whose avocation is oil geology...
...Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted the house boards and I've sold tickets and I've been fired by George M. Cohan. I've played in London before the King and in Oil City before miners with lanterns in their caps. . . . So what is it you'd like to know...
Married. David Mdivani, 44, last-surviving of the three "Marrying Mdivanis," oil speculator; and Virginia Sinclair, 29, daughter of Oil Tycoon Harry Sinclair; he for the second time, she for the first; in Las Vegas...
Died. Earle Westwood Sinclair, 70, longtime president of Sinclair Oil Refining Co.; after a heart attack; in Manhattan. While his partner-brother, dashing Harry Sinclair (see above), was bogged down with the trials and tribulations of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, he quietly managed and built their business into one of the world's great oil empires...