Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in prison, Godbey bided his time. Released for good behavior, he headed for Oklahoma City. In the law offices of Richardson, Shartel, Cochran & Pruet, he found his man, now a prosperous oil lawyer. Godbey spotted him in the hall, blurted out, "I have a divorce case." For a minute, Lawyer Pruet eyed the stooped, grey-haired stranger. Then he turned away, muttering "Wait a minute." Godbey drew a .38 and shot Pruet in the back twice, walked out of the office and vanished into the late afternoon crowd...
...recognition seemed likely to solve few of the Venezuelan junta's problems. Just a week after the junta used tear gas to break up a student demonstration at Caracas' Central University, it countered a sudden oil workers' strike in the state of Zulia by jailing union leaders and threatening strikers with loss of social-security benefits. Foreign observers wondered if the walkout was a dress rehearsal for more serious trouble...
...lively brothers soon discovered that they had different investment tastes. David was interested in electronics, Winthrop in oil and calculating machines. But they also found out that they could "coerce each other into things." Among the first to start "coercing" was Nelson...
Texas Oilman Jack Wrather and some well-heeled friends decided to make a contribution to the local Boy Scouts; they spent $22,000 in drilling a well near Longview, struck oil, turned the operation over to the boys. Expected income: $900 a month, plus $125 for Girl Scouts...
Across the front and back covers was a Grant Wood painting (Stone City), printed in eight colors on linen. Inside were reproductions, many in fine color, of 389 other photographs, paintings, etchings and woodcuts. They covered everything from Thomas Edison to the oil industry, from Yankee clippers to undergraduate life at Princeton. There were no ads, no "think pieces"; there was a bare minimum of text. Explained 30-year-old Editor Robert K. Heimann: "In thumbing through [other magazines] I've often found myself skipping-the solid reading matter . . ." What text there was in Heritage could be skipped also...