Word: oils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piece Hegeman String Band, the reception was sweetly tender. The Hegeman String Band strummed Deep in the Heart of Texas. During the preliminaries, beaming Lyndon table-hopped through the hall and on through the two tents pitched to handle overflow diners, shook hands, cracked jokes ("You discovered oil here in Pennsylvania, but we get all the blame"). Boss Lawrence courteously introduced his guest as "the man who guided through the Congress the programs upon which the Democratic Party rests its case wfth the people...
...Stock ownership is being systematically spread. Recently, nearly 1,000,000 individual Germans earning under $3,800 a year signed up for shares in a public sale of the state-owned Preussag mining and oil company. The government expects to sell more "People's Shares'" in a half dozen other major firms it owns, including Volkswagen. In private industry, more than 30% of the employees of the big DEMAG engineering firm own stock in their company...
Tall, broad-shouldered Fred Turner Jr., 62, has made millions out of oil wells, but his true love is a good thoroughbred. Says he: "I like to travel, but any place in the world becomes boring for me after a few days unless I have a purpose, and thoroughbreds are the answer." Last week, at Louisville's Churchill Downs, Turner's purpose paid off as his English-bred colt, Tomy Lee, won the Kentucky Derby and its $119,650 purse...
...twelve children, Turner grew up on a ranch in Texas, struck oil as a wildcatter nearly 30 years ago, and bought his own ranch near Midland, Texas. He began buying thoroughbreds to improve his cow-pony stock, as an afterthought sent some to California to race. When World War II started, he shipped his racers back to Texas, and turned them loose on the range to breed with his cow ponies. Failing in efforts to buy established horses after the war, he decided to try his luck abroad, began buying Irish and British yearlings...
...General Motors $1.03 $ .65 Chrysler 1.75 1.74 (loss) Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) .78 .72 Westinghouse Electric Corp. .81 .73 Brunswick-Balke-Collender...