Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preliminary investigation has been launched into alleged tie-ups between racketeers and some Teamsters Union officials in Oklahoma City...
Neither Rodgers nor Hammerstein, venturing TV for the first time after their triumphant Broadway travels, seemed to fear that the end would be confusion. They presided over the production as if it were another Broadway show. (Their budget: $375,000, four times what they had to stage Oklahoma! Their take: $100,000.) "You have to be damn careful with TV," said Rodgers. "If you're not-it's murder. One mistake, and 60 million people see it. Someone figured that if this show played the Morosco Theater it would have to run 107 years to get the same...
...Grade Lead. In Oklahoma City, Elmer Anderson of the Water Department answered a call for assistance, unlocked a water meter cover, retrieved a stubby, well-chewed pencil for a worried eight-year-old, gently asked if his mother didn't have a better pencil, was told, "That's the pencil I make the best grades with...
Bulloch's biggest coup still has Oklahoma politicians in a dither. In the 1956 election he uncovered a brisk trade in absentee ballots which had given State Senator John Russell a narrow victory over Representative Tom Payne. The outcome: Payne was seated in the state senate while his opponent and several other state officials, including an aide to Democratic Governor Raymond Gary, were charged with conspiracy. Soon after this investigation, Bulloch was warned that disgruntled politicians were out to avenge the vote-fraud exposure...
...three twin-engined Lockheed 125, and became Varney vice president of operations at $400 a month. Varney changed its name to Continental, and Six, made president in 1938, slowly plotted routes outward from Pueblo to Denver, by 1948 had 2,772 miles through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma. As a further step, Six made interchange deals with American Airlines, United and Braniff. which permitted him to book customers to the West Coast...